Jun 04 2010
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“ Angry when he championed the press as crucial to democracy, and implied the iPad would save our country from “descending into a nation of bloggers” (my view: we started as a nation of bloggers - pamphleteers like Thomas Paine).
— Steve Jobs at D: A Master… - John Battelle’s Searchblog
Right, because barfing out one’s opinion on the web is really comparable to the effort that pamphleteers went through, and Nick Denton of Gawker infamy is at all comparable to Thomas Paine.