Customers - Who is offering the best outlet for self-expression? - "BBC World Service - Documentaries - Citizen journalism - democracy or chaos?"

To a large extent, most newspapers are simply letting this battle play out. One could hardly accuse many newspapers of trying to manage the evolution, even in a minor way, to make its outcome a better one. Many of the entities that create opportunities for non-journalists to share their writings claim to have high-minded ideals and seek to make the world a better place. Even if one accepts that, don't newspapers have a lot more to offer than they are now doing? Couldn't good newspaper managers develop a means by which the opportunities for people to express themselves increase more quickly than in the rest of the marketplace? Is it impossible to think that newspapers could take the lead on some of this to help move it in a direction where core values and the apparent desire to express oneself can both be better served?