Print’s value is increasing with its scarcity

What we thought we were paying for in newspapers was all the news that was in them. In fact, the main role of the newspaper was to decide what to leave out.

This perfectly describes the friction in the news business today. Old media doesn’t know how to scale their best asset and the technology that’s replacing it doesn’t know how to distill an editor to an algorithm. Yet. Each is hoping to get there first while paying some deference to the other just in case.

Ross is exactly spot on here, not just for his rather astute point but for the precise and eloquent way he says it. If you’re at all interested in the tectonic shifts happening in media, Ross should be at the top of your reading list.