To your point about “professionally presented” news, I’ll agree that Twitter is a far cry from that. But Twitter is at the far right of the online journalism spectrum. You need only look at the offerings further along that spectrum to see that there is no shortage of people producing compelling, well thought out content. (*ahem* )

Newspapers are going away because their model for delivering content is obsolete, not because the demand for quality journalism is changing. That demand will remain, and will surely be filled by bloggers and journalists online that “grok” how online news works. I find the claims of some that “in-depth journalism will disappear” almost laughably naive.

I hope that print news survives in some form. It is good at times to
get away from the high-tech and settle into a chair to slowly read a
paper. But I have to admit that I seldom read the newspaper that gets
delivered everyday into the bushes, sometimes soggy, or with a thud
when it hits the door.

One of the advantages to professionally presented news over sources
like Twitter is that the unneeded noise is filtered out. An electronic
delivery method is far superior to print. The factor that makes
online news most attractive to me is the ability to scan multiple sources quickly to find information on a topic.

Thanks for your article.

Rich