Gladwell.com | New Yorker
Malcolm Gladwell says we should recognize what the
Enron case tells us about the value of newspaper journalism. "Maybe ... we have underestimated the value of impartial, professionally-motivated, under-paid and overworked generalists in tackling the kind of information-rich, analysis-dependent 'mysteries' that the modern world throws at us. All of which, of course, points out the irony of what's happening in the newspaper business right now. We are dismantling the institution of newspaper journalism precisely at the moment when it seems to be of greatest social value."
