One more on the Cleveland kerfuffle. See Howard Weaver’s advice:
Are you feeling uncomfortable yet?
If not, I’m worried about you. If you’re not squirming in uncertainty from time to time nowadays, you must not be close enough to the edge. In response to a question in the Sacramento Bee newsroom last week, Melanie Sill said, “If you’re in a newsroom and the editor doesn’t say that change is needed, you should leave.” I think that same sentiment applies to our need to loosen up, let go of some control and learn to play by the changing rules of the new game we’re in.
See also Jay Rosen’s comment on the politics of this.
