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I think it makes what I wanted to say a little more clear.

Nonetheless, if Mr. Dobkin had limited his criticism to a head-to-head between a NYTimes blog, with which I wasn’t familiar as a non-NYCer, he could have some valid points. Though, the wishing-down of the Cityroom’s size to something comparable to his enterprise and the plea for more links do come across as somewhat self-serving, but it’s the tirade against the paper (and newspapers) as a whole that I found troubling.

There seems to be this myth that 25 year-olds used to read more newspapers, while I think there’s actually a higher percentage of readership in the modern age, they’re just get it through an electronic form. After all, I take it that Mr. Dobkin links to the Times and to other old media sources; well each and every of those who click through from his site, end-up at the New York Times.

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Throughout the early days of hyperlocal, I’ve been vocal and steadfast in my belief that old media and new media have to co-exist because they have a symbiotic relationship — new media can produce some traffic from the anointed demographic and they can do some enterprise reporting with their limited budgets, but the larger budgets, bigger workforce, standards and prestige of old media simply do things on a larger scale and for a much larger audience.

It’s amusing to hear Dobkin call City Room – a source of original reporting and early-draft newspaper articles – a rip-off of Gothamist when The Times had been reporting news for 150 years before anyone knew what Gothamist was or would be. Gothamist now posts far too many items per day for it to be useful or readable. Most of those posts are simply curated links to other articles, and I don’t know anyone in my 20-40 generation Dobkin so covets who would turn to Gothamist over The Times as a source for breaking news or insightful and in-depth commentary.

This should be an interesting panel mostly to hear Dobkin defend these views and the way Gothamist works.