From USA Today: Newspapers as important as libraries!

Here's a delightful quote from Professor Theodore Glasser. The article is about the demise of newspapers:

"We need to view journalism in the same way that we view libraries and public schools, as absolutely essential to any prospering community," says Theodore Glasser, professor of communications at Stanford University.

Prof. Glasser has just become one of my personal heroes. (I've never met the man, but I hope he's up to the task....)