Recalling my last post about the demise of the PI, I give you this:

The idea that the Huffington Post, or the explosion of interesting internet news or blogging sites, can replace journalistic institutions like the New York times or other newspapers or dinosaurs of the mainstream media truly misunderstands the web, newspapers, journalism and the serious threat posed to democracy if the news gathering institutions fail.

Did it come from an angry old journalist writing in the dinosaur of the old media newspapers? Good guess, but no it is by Steven Waldman: Why the Huffington Post Can’t Replace The New York Times and appeared on The Huffington Post this morning.

Just liked that at least one blogger who writes for a news aggregator understands that his job is beholden to that “dinoasaur” of old media so many blogs and other sites like to call dead. Without The Times, Post, LA Times, and a few others, blogs would die, quickly. And so would democracy.

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