Let's play 'Who's the Luddite now?'
Submitted by yelvington on May 20, 2008 - 1:36pmFor more than a decade there's been a deep division in newspaper journalism between the "onliners" and the .. well, let's face it, we all called them Luddites. Dinosaurs. People who just don't get it.
But times change.
All across the country there are efforts to move online publishing responsibility and authority into the core news organization.
It is a move fraught with peril. I've previously warned of the many ways that this can go wrong. But I have become convinced of the following: