In the current issue of the New Yorker, Jane Kramer has an outstanding article about Pope Benedict. It's a good example of why long form journalism, IMHO, will continue to play a substantial role in how people receive information. In some ways, this article was an absolutely bracing rejection of some of the most popular themes running around in the blogosphere right now -- "tweets" of 140 words or less, the Digg attack squads spewing bile, commentary with more opinion than fact. It's a long article, on a relatively obscure but pretty important topic (the role and relationship of two key religions, Islam and Catholicism), and it is not dumbed down at all -- it assumes the reader is willing to to parse through long quotes, theological debates, reasoned arguments. Conde Naste has the right idea with Wired, The New Yorker and potentially with their new publication, Portfolio, with their emphasis on longer stories seem to be setting themselves up well as the counter to shorter is better.