Disrupt and provide a public service, or continue to write about it?

When the public needed a service to find things on the internet, some journalists wrote about how a new breed of search engines were providing that service … while Google disrupted the way people found information. When the public started looking for niche sites about topics they cared about, journalists wrote about how enigmatic blogs were providing that service … while blogs disrupted the publication and of niche content. When the public needed someone to point them to news that they