Entering a New World

So after reading the two articles Sandy mentioned, I found myself both surprised and troubled. The article about the Christian Science Monitor was not terribly shocking to me, despite its connotations. In todays world, you'd have to be foolish not to think that print is quickly becoming replaced with internet articles. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that hundreds of small papers either vanish or go digital within the next year or so. It's sad, but it seems to make sense.
The article talked about the money that newspapers make off advertising and individual paper sales, and it's clear that that money just doesn't exist on the internet. Yes, there are still advertisements, but they only generate a fraction of the money that hard copy newspapers do. This is a problem for hardcore newspaper writers.
The article that did surprise me was the one about Q.U. To me, college has always stood for freedom and independance. People come to college not only to get an education, but to "find themselves". The recent incident at Q.U. seems to me like an example of the total opposite philosophy. It seems very troublesome that an instution such as a college would be so restricting to the first amendment. If colleges are tightening their reins, who's next? Where will minds be free to think and explore and create?
In summary, I am worried about the future of journalism. I've been studying journalism since high school, and it would be a damn shame to find out that there are only half as many jobs available for me when I graduate than there were before I entered college. I do like all this multimedia stuff, but when a journalist thinks "job", they think newsroom, not a laptop at home. Not that there's anything wrong with working from a laptop at home, I'm sure it's much easier and less stressful, but that's not exactly the enviornment journalists, this journalist anyway, want.