I remember when "convergence" was a big, new part of the marketplace of ideas.  Naturally, I thought that with Internet Revolution II now firmly on its way, this convergence concept had been generally accepted.

I was wrong.

On Jim Romenesko's media news blog, something of a debate has errupted about the value of the convergence of media formats -- essentially, the marrying of print, broadcast and online media.  It began with a column by Edward Wasserman, a journalism ethics professor at Washington and Lee University, and continued with a rebuttal by Tom Fiedler, executive editor of the Miami Herald.

Wasserman wrote: