Technology - Is the internet scarier than a deserted street on a dark night? - "Editorial Notebook - Time to Be Afraid of the Web?" - NYTimes.com

Newspapers have to worry about a lot of environments in which they operate. One of the biggest has always been the streets traveled all over the world to bring printed newspapers to vending machines, vendors, homes and businesses. The dangers lurking there have been varied and at times immense. Now, newspapers have to confront new dangers in the internet world, and I wonder if the crisis of confidence that shakes so many people when they read something like this has really sunk in with newspapers. Are we assuming too blithely that the internet will simply work fine and our only job is to make money using it, or more altruistically, use it to disseminate great journalism to a hungry world?