People on fixed incomes invest in utilities. They're the big loser, one of the big losers, in the California energy crisis. The media was more than willing to write about how they were pushed out. If you talk to adventure capitalists, there's a lot of money out there waiting to be invested in the next big thing. A lot of people have a problem with civic journalism because it's unpredictable.
Civic journalism requires a leap of faith, almost like jumping off of a skyscraper.
We enter into projects without knowing where the community conversation is going. And we can't orchestrate true deliberation. It thrives on the harmonic convergence of the unexpected. If this sounds like the road not taken, it is. And I'm sure all of you journalists resonate with Robert Frost's poem that ends.