Adam Penenberg, who teaches journalism at New York University, asks some good questions: "Should we raze our curriculum to the ground and start over, perhaps, and look to the web for inspiration? Could it be beneficial to jettison "objectivity" and "balance" in favor of transparent bias, much like bloggers (and online columnists) do? Would it be wise to encourage our students to exchange fact-based narrative for edgy commentary and digital trash talk? And if we were to banish the inverted pyramid to the scrapheap of history, what could we replace it with?" He goes on to peter out with a middleground response, and like most journalists, characterizes the blog revolution as a moving away from 'objectivity' to 'subjectivity.' But is more than reporters going gonzo: it's the people becoming writers, instead of being couch potatoes; it's a social revolution, where people do more than read, or listen, or watch. We are all of us becoming artists, as McLuhan presaged: the revenge of the readers.

[pointer from David Churbuck]