Musician David Byrne makes an intelligent analysis of the current state of the news industry, comparing it to what happened to the music industry in the 1980s.

“What will happen when most of the country has nothing but entertainment, gossip and sports as sources of information? It’s a country ripe for takeover, if you ask me… Blogs and Internet news sites can’t fill the gap, as they don’t have the resources to sustain a team of reporters working and digging into a story — sometimes for months before anything sees the light of day.”