This is something people have been struggling with throughout the world. A study was done in the Netherlands of the way in which young people are using news, because it was seen that the traditional serious news of the public broadcaster, the BBC model or the Dutch model, for their public broadcaster was too serious, that young people weren't interested in serious information.
They found you have this thing called “snacking” 24/7. Young people want to be engaged in different levels of community, but as part of that, they expect there will be a level of credible, high-quality, independently produced, well-researched news available as one of those options, and they were turning to the public broadcaster. They liked it when it was being streamed, they liked it when it was available in bits on the website, but it was a key component of what they needed.
Again, in terms of the complementarity, where is the news journalistic resource that is at the base of what people can build as their own mediascape? It's nice to say that students will create their own communities and blogs, but they still want to know about what is happening in Amherst, they want to know what's happening in Nunavut, etc. They need that connection and they need the credible, well-produced content that is coming from a network of people around the country.