"We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality." ― Eric Alterman Topic(s): Technology More From Eric Alterman "To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad." "Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system – like our physical existence – still breaks down along geographical lines." "If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’" More In Technology "For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that’s just the price of being first sometimes."― Hugh Grant "The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."― Paul Allen "Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."― Emily Greene Balch