Cockeyed Optimism
I 'm not in the habit of commenting there and publishing here (it really should be one or the other, shouldn't it?), but Jeff Jarvis struck a nerve over at The Buzz Machine with his call for comments on why anyone should be optimistic about the future of news in a post headlined " Nabobs of negativism v. cock-eyed optimists" . In the interest of full disclosure: I am. Here's what I wrote over there: The good news is great news: there is no evidence that the public interest in news has waned. We just don’t know exactly what people I feel like a kid in a candy store most days, free to be disloyal or to ignore, to find out what’s happening on my terms. Or to skip a day or two and catch up later. are doing or like – and maybe they don’t either since the volume of choice -- in content and means of consumption -- can tend to breed fickleness. The theorists call this " fragmentation ." I feel like a kid in a candy store most days, free to be disloyal or to ign...