Rob Davis of Voice of San Diego wrote one of the better articles I’ve seen in San Diego lately–not to take away from Rob, but the UT has set that bar pretty low. Regarding the California Coastal Commission’s rejection of the infamous Toll Road through South Orange County, he seemed to capture the essence of what the public meeting was all about.  In a a heated climate where certainly the opposition was more vocal, he managed to present the story in an insightful, honest and entertaining piece of journalism.  He didn’t fill his column with 650 words of sound bites.This is reporting of the future. Whether an event or occurrence be national or local,  we can easily get “the facts” from newswires, 10 second radio bits (I had already heard the results on the way to work) or other sources (Google) designed to pump out information efficiently and objectively to as many people as possible.   The value of journalism in our society is shifting from pure objectivity about the facts to objectivity about the nature and context of what occurred, why something matters, and the underlying issues that make the story relevant to the public at large. This is the responsibility of the media today–informing the public about the external realities of the situation. The newspaper is not dead.  It’s evolving.   I’m adding voiceofsandiego.org to my short list of “newspapers” that will survive the next decade.  Click here if you want some old fashioned boring coverage of the event.