http://www.corante.com/rebuildingmedia/archives/2005/08/03/are_metro_papers_outdated_unofficial_local_coverage_day_continues_at_rebuilding_media.php Perhaps we should now begin asking whether there is a maximum size that a newspaper can achieve before it outgrows its ecosystem and begins to fail its community. This concept runs counter to every instinct in a newsroom or publisher's suite where the fundamental logic dictates that bigger is always better. Yet the smartest business move at this juncture might be to break up metro papers into a suite of smaller newspapers serving the same geographic area, but with very local goals. en-us http://blog.pegasusnews.com/2005/08/whos_at_fault.html Last week I pointed to Richard Posner's indictment of mainstream media. In rebuttal to that piece, Jack Shafer says he doesn't trust the audience:The larger point that the boneheads who so despise the media need to appreciate is that the