These comments featured below are from a larger debate over the subject of the medium of print. I have included only a portion of the debate, which you can read in its entirety here.
According to John Griffin, President of the National Geographic Society's magazine group, "print is where words go to live--we're still reading the ancient Greeks. On the other hand, I question the life span of blogs."
Griffen continues, "Blogging is great if you want to see yourself published unedited, and the Internet is wonderful when you already know what you are interested in. But there is tremendous value in passionate, knowledgeable, talented editors who can assign stories and photographs with budgets to do them better and more authoritatively than any individual can. The reader of a magazine like National Geographic can depend on the information being accurate, coherent, concise, beautiful and created by the by most talented writers and photographers in the world. And readers may learn about something that they didn't know they were interested in.
Print is the perfect introduction to an informed debate and to the deep resources of the web. The words and pictures in print or on a magazine's web site become the basis for searching, linking, talking and ranting for those with the time or inclination to do so. The web is the friend of print, not its killer."
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