As a former reporter and editor, I follow keenly the newspaper industry's battle for survival. As a novelist, I've had the chance to spend time in the Amazon rain forest, beneath the old-growth canopy and on fire-razed tracts where the green fortress has been destroyed.

It was Steven Johnson's rain-forest/desert metaphor that got me thinking about his words. In particular, his suggestion that we've been living in a news “desert” for the past century.

I offer my answer to his “old-growth” theory on my blog, The Bridge - “The Future of Newspapers: Seeing the Wood for the Trees in Steven Johnson's “Old-Growth.”

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