‘Terrifying.’ ‘Scary.’ The ABC’s Annabel Crabb is worried about the rise of digital media and the slow yet steady decline of print journalism. Putting out a newspaper used to be done by ‘a dozen blokes nursing hangovers’. The crowd at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, amazingly, doesn’t blink.
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Mary Kissel is a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and host of OpinionJournal on WSJLive.
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