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Earlier this week, I had posted about how journalists are concerned about financial pressures at their media companies can hinder the ability to do a great job. Steve Rubel goes one step further, suggesting that this and other trends "may soon drain popular columnists and even cartoonists nearing retirement age away from mainstream outlets to micro-media, such as Weblogs."
While this wouldn't be great news for the mainstream outlets, it would mean good things for the fans of writers and cartoonists who might "stick around" a little longer, now that they're not on formal deadline.