Quote, unquote: Undervalued journalism

If you’re hearing few howls and seeing little rending of garments over the impending death of institutional, high-quality journalism, it’s because the public at large has been trained to undervalue journalists and journalism. The Internet has done much to encourage lazy news consumption, while virtually eradicating the meaningful distinctions among newspaper brands.

-- Michael Hirschorn, The Atlantic, writing about how
The New York Times as we know it, may disappear sooner rather than later.