No Time For Newsprint

The folks at The We Campaign have already demonstrated that they aren’t wise to the web (see Getting Sociality Wrong: We), so it comes as no great surprise that I got an email ‘from’ Cathy Zoi at The We Campaign suggesting that I write a letter to the editor of my local newspaper about Congress and the stupidity surrounding the nation’s elected officials’ response to the energy crisis:

No time for vacation, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Oh yes, write a letter to the editor, at a time when newspaper reading is plummeting and newsrooms across the country are laying off, trimming the news hole, and closing down.

But nothing about blogging about it, or chatting to your friends in Facebook. These people need to get some advice about the social revolution. Call me up folks. I’d like to help.

PS I continue to believe it’s wrong to send emails that people can’t respond to meaningfully.

PPS The production and delivery of newspapers is the sort of contribution to global warming that The We Campaign should be rallying against, right?