Just like in the old days of Pegasus

Great WSJ column on the (d)evolution of news. My favorite part is the punchline:

And at the risk of sounding old ourselves, we're not so worried about the under-30 set and its supposed allergy to substantive news. If a time machine could whisk us back to ancient Sumeria, we bet you we'd find the stampers of the Daily Cuneiform pulling their beards and muttering that kids these days are interested almost exclusively in frivolous things: the hot new Gilgamesh adventure, putting away too many bowls of fermented barley beverage, and the doings of other youth, as opposed to worrying about crumbling canals and what the Hittites are up to.

Then as now, time passes and one finds oneself part of a family and communities of all stripes, from the personal to the political, with news part of the lifeblood of all those communities. It'll be waiting for today's youth when they need it, just as it always has been. Only this time those new devourers of news will have better tools than any generation before them.

We  hope think that we're building some of those tools.