Colorado Congressman Jared Polis (D-2) jumped on the not yet cold body of the Rocky Mountain News this week pounding his chest to proclaim “we (bloggers) helped kill it, and I argue it’s mostly for the better.”
Jarred, good buddy, I may generally agree with your politics, but about a long suffering relative, that’s just not what you shout out at the funeral —even if it is being held at a Netroots Nation in Your Neighborhood event.
Polis, whose family made their fortune like most dot.com millionaires by selling a company that didn’t make much money online for more than it could ever be worth, is right and wrong.
Every minute someone spends a blog is subtracted from the giant zero sum game of audience attention that can be used to gain ad dollars that pay “real, “ as in MSM journalists.
But Craig Newmark with one simple free classified model has done more damage than all the huffing Huffington Posts and bragging bloggers in the world.
The equation is justtoo simple to be taken seriously enough — free drives out paid — period.
The other debate about how valid community journalism is or isn’t ; has as much to do with the demise of newspapers as the taste of the last cup of coffee served at a closed Starbucks.
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