On Shirky, On Jarvis, On Rosen And Gillmor!

“’Future of News’ thinkers, who emerged only in the last few years, represent a new kind of public intellectual: journalism academics known for neither their journalism nor their scholarship. Yet, the fact is they are filling a void left by an intellectually exhausted journalism establishment, and filling it with crisp, readable — and voluminous — prose that offers to connect journalism to the technocratic vanguard…. To the extent that FON thinkers mau-mau the news business — that’s a good thing. The problem is that FON thinkers (but not Rosen, as we’ll see) sometimes let slip a light regard for journalism itself, that is to say, what journalists actually do.”
 — Who’s your boss paying to help figure out the “future of news”? All our most and least favorite consultants and media book writers!