Jason Calacanis says "no." I disagree. A couple of points:
1. I don't think live interviews are about gotcha journalism, as Jason says. So far, the richest form of communication is face to face. Second is phone and email and all else is a distant third. If you are looking for context and understanding, a personal interview is the place to start.
2. The idea that print magazines and newspapers can't break news if ludicrous. Who broke the Abu Ghraib story? Who broke the wiretapping story? Who broke the story about signing statements? I could go on and on. Now maybe if Jason is arguing that the stories are first "broken" on their websites, it might be more plausible, but he's not -- he's saying:
What this is really all about at the end of the day is that WIRED the print magazine--like other magazines and newspapers--are lost and adrift because they can't break stories any more.
3. I continue to reject the premise that for one new media to thrive, another must die. TV did not kill radio and so on.
4. Jason says, "Print is dead in the news role because it can't keep up with the conversation--not because people don't like print per se." Just maybe, in some small (or not) corner of the world, people don't want a conversation. They want facts and information, and right now they can get that from a print publication as easily as they can from an online.