Sunday rambles

The editors of n+1 examine the rise of "webism" and some of its paradoxes: The webists met the [New York:] Times's schizophrenia with a schizophrenia of their own. The worst of them simply cheered the almost unbelievably rapid collapse of the old media, which turned out, for all its seeming influence and power, to be a paper tiger, held up by elderly white men. But the best of them were given pause: themselves educated by newspapers, magazines, and books, they did not wish for these things to ...