It also could be called the death of journalism. FIT TO PRINT TRAILER

[geefloyd46]

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[trumad]

1. The Internet...

and 24x7 cable news.... its easy to see why fish rags are dying.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Journalism is a bad joke, always has been

Peglerism has always been the norm.

[SemperEadem]

3. the owners of the press don't even want the freedom

the constitution gives them. They are quick to take orders from political operatives in exchange for "access". You let an investigative journalist get anywhere near the nub of the truth about wrongdoing by a government official and someone is on the phone to the publisher telling/warning him/her to back up off the story... or else. And they call that reporter in and make them back up.

If Watergate happened today, no media outlet would carry the story and it would be forced to die.

[uphill fighter]

4. Journalist Died Years Ago - This is Just the Funeral

American Journalism started its decline in the Cold War, got sicker in the 1980s when the wall between the newsroom and advertising was torn down (that was Reagan's REAL wall-tearing-down achievement) and then went into its death throes in the Bush administration

Here's a couple of good commentaries:

A story about a journalist who tried to sound the alarm in the 1950s:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/96818682/American-Media-Manipulation

and a story about the more recent decline
http://www.scribd.com/doc/96595192/Sorry-Excuse-for-News

[KurtNYC]

5. We are all journalists now

Journalism has gone through a revolution in the last 5 years. It has been stood upon its head and people are just starting to understand the implications of that. Democracy just had a baby but nobody passed out cigars.

One to many media has become many to many with sites like this one aggregating and instantly analyzing events as they happen. News now breaks on Twitter and everyone else is downstream ending with TV then newspapers then news magazines. The monopoly of TV news is dead.

Aggregated news and media via websites like DU* is the future of news. The sooner we get out of a mode of being a passive audience and embrace the idea that we are ALL now potential journalist, editor, analyst and audience member, the better.