Thanks to USC's talented video team, the whole thing has been captured for your online viewing pleasure. And the conference was filled with journalists, many of whom have already posted good articles on whatever was said . I didn't hear all of it, but what I heard bodes well for journalism. The days of staff reporters discussing their portfolios and luxury homes may finally be over. Thank the Lord.
Somebody has to be out there generating something every day and somebody has to be paid for it.
During the weeks without a phone line, I enjoyed all sorts of non-interactive media. The radio is pretty good, with NPR and Marketplace and Phil Hendrie . Teevee is fine, especially with 200 channels beamed to your roof for the cost of a meal out. And newspapers do a good job of telling you the local stuff nationally focused Web sites would never mention, like the very important mayoral election in the nation's second-biggest city. The journalist's job is to sift through the press releases and meetings and non-events and tell us where the news is.