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Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists. Every day there are newspaper pages and television newscasts to be filed, and an expert who can deliver a jarring piece of wisdom is always welcome. Working together, journalists and experts are the architects of conventional wisdom.
- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics

Newspaper critics are being bypassed by web sites where people are allowed to become critics themselves. And nearly all these sites are a two-way conversation. Especially in areas like Travel, the younger generation wants to read information by people like themselves. So a newspaper has a choice. They can say we are the experts, or they can say 'this is interesting' ask their readers to comment.
- Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, quoted in Mike Butcher's A pincer movement on the papers

The late E.F. Schumacher believed that there are two places to find wisdom: in nature and in religious traditions. To seek wisdom in nature we should obviously go to those who have loved nature enough to study it.
- Matthew Fox, Original Blessing

Look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
- Time Magazine

Risk-averse newsrooms have spent several decades with their collective heads in the ink barrel, ignoring the changing society around them, refusing to embrace new technologies and defensively adhering to both a rigid internal hierarchy and an inflexible definition of 'news' that produces a stenographic form of journalism, one that has stood still, frozen by homage to tradition, while the world has moved on.
- Tim Porter, If newspapers are to rise again

There are also forward-thinking reporters and editors and photographers who envision and are working to create a journalistic future built on new story forms, deeper community connections and more truth-telling and watch-dogging. A dilemma facing the industry is whether it can retain these folks long enough to make change happen.
- Tim Porter, The mood of the newsroom

How did it come to be that the news is reported solely by journalists?
- Rob Brezsny, Pronoia

I read the news today, oh boy.
- The Beatles

Freedom of the press is the best indicator of the freedom of a country.
- President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, reported in Honduras This Week

When did we stop calling it 'the underground press?' When did the more polite 'alternative' usurp the usage? That's one of those little landmarks lost to history, even by we who were making (or dancing to?) that history. I've asked others who were there, and they can't remember either. Looking back, it was the turning point. At some unmarked moment we all sort of forgot that we'd been trying to bring down the American system and dedicated ourselves to a task both more possible and more complicated: We engaged in a commercial venture that would make money and support us while standing for anti-commercial values -- true children of our generation, we determined to have our cake and, while critically discussing its contents, eat it too.
- Michael Ventura, Look Ma, No Hands

At the Beauty and Truth Laboratory, we believe that stories about the rot are not inherently more captivating than stories about the splendor ... Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is hackneyed shtick. Wallowing in despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.
- Rob Brezsny, Pronoia

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