In his opinion, the Web, just like television and radio, is simply a new channel for distributing information. It's not going to cancel out the other in my lifetime. He conceded that the print product will probably not be like what we have today. Instead, it will be personalized, downloadable to a printer and then the same piece of paper will be whited out and reused the next day. Not only will the delivery system change, Grabowicz predicted, writing styles will have to evolve as well.
Most people go on-line looking for statistics and then get drawn into the stories.
He suggested making the most of that by thinking of the data graphics first, rather than as an afterthought. We don't want reporters analyzing. There are three sides to every story and the need for objectivity will not change. It's just the same old failed ideas cycling back. The Internet is a dramatically different culture because it is interactive.