What can we discuss?

O.k., folks, so here it is. Don't know about you but this is my first official blog. Here's the topic:

What do you make of the demise of the newspaper? and, What does that mean for our democracy?

According to the assignment criteria, you will have two posts: an initial, 3-4 paragraph post with a news source link and analysis of the topic. The second post will be a response to another student in which you offer a piece of textual evidence from one of our theoretical readings this semester.

Blogs become useful and valuable when they become a storehouse of useful and meaningful links on a topic. Feel free to post a video link, too. All reasonable and serious thoughts will be appreciated. (Wisecracks and the like will be entertained but without substance . . . well, you know.)