ABSTRACT
Print journalists are told daily that no one reads newspapers anymore. A new attitude is taking hold whose primary thrust is that, in the age of “instant information,” the print journalists are going to be more important than ever. The idea rampant in communications world–that “information” has been transmogrified into a value and a creature of itself, without the need to have it interpreted by appropriate and trained people–is as romantic and utopian as Rousseau’s ideas that mankind will be naturally good. Instead, information without context, without knowledge and without wisdom, is as empty as life without beauty, without history and without hope. But the intelligent and thoughtful attention to the deeper meanings of journalism is reassuring–and should reassure other professions threatened by change.
