Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Who's Investing for the Future? Plenty of Us

I haven't read the report Dan cites in this post, but hope to be able to get to it soon. Pending that, Dan's excerpts are vitally important as one ponders journalism's future, particularly the investments required to gather the basic news upon which so much opinion and blogging depends. We DO need basic news gatherers for a free society maintained by an enlightened populace.