April 11, 2008

Seduced by Information

By JOHN SUMMERS

The move from print to the Internet is not as radical as it seems

I still remember the feeling of anxious anticipation when I first spread open The New York Times. I was 26 years old. I had been raised in rural Pennsylvania in a family of tradition-minded conservatives with little good to say about cities or their newspapers. Not until after I graduated from college in rural Virginia did I read The Washington Post, and it took a few more years to gin up the confidence to confront the