1. ) Clay Shirky stresses how much 'accountability journalism' is, because the fact that news presented needs to have credibility, accurateness, and editorial judgement with no bias in order to have an ethical share of knowledge and without a definitive answer in a sense.
2. ) He states that advertisers were not 'overcharged' but instead 'underserved'. As a result for newspapers, Shirky still stands by his opinion that they're irreplaceable, however if advertisers' revenue sparks up then it is an issue for newspapers as the dynamics change, therefore they have to change as a result too.
3. ) Shirky states that newspapers sometimes don't make sense in what the user wants to consume, meaning for example the jump from one topic to another, as with his analogy; "they just done a crossword puzzle and they seem to really like it, what’s the next thing you’re gonna show them? Is it news from Tegucigalpa? No. It’s another crossword puzzle, because that’s the only thing you can..." Ultimately, people's consumption tend to be more specific as they'd want to for example consume news on the latest attacks in country x, but instead news institutions present different stories, and this just influences the barrier from credible news from established sources to news in the digital age, where they have access in the realm of the Internet to anything else.
4. ) Shirky explains how news presented before the digital age didn't have much of an impact, that they were forgotten after a few weeks. He uses examples such as a priest molesters crime in 1992, where the offender made victim to almost a hundred boys. Essentially, his point is that if the Internet circulated as much as it does now in comparison, the story would be immensely more widespread.
5. ) Shirky most disproves paywalls as he sees it to barrier news consumption on a human level, that people should have the right to acknowledge regardless if they've paid for it or not. He states that it "damages" general news and benefits financial news.
6. ) Social good is a presentation of information being widespread, and this information constitutes people's rights of knowledge as humans, example they should have the right to know that there is a local threat in their area, whether they've paid to consume news or not, or any political event taking place that influences them or others.
7. ) As far as Shirky says, he states that newspapers are 'irreplaceable', however if they are to change the media landscape of things, they will need to 'experiment' things in their next step. Perhaps to pioneer another platform for the newspaper industry, rather than to completely get rid of them.
8. ) I think it's very important that brands such as New York Times and The Guardian as a whole to stay in the industry, especially because they're such credible institutions that have a history, and this history reflects their professionalism are reliability that consumers have, and to take this away would be to strip people of their knowledge on a human level.