Eric Alter­man in the New Yorker:  The death and life of the Amer­i­can news­pa­per. Excerpt:

As early as May, 2004, news­pa­pers had become the least pre­ferred source
for news among younger peo­ple. Accord­ing to “Aban­don­ing the News,”
pub­lished by the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion, thirty-nine per cent of
respon­dents under the age of thirty-five told researchers that they
expected to use the Inter­net in the future for news pur­poses; just
eight per cent said that they would rely on a newspaper. …

As the ven­er­a­ble “dean” of the Wash­ing­ton press corps, David Broder, of the Post, puts it, “There just isn’t enough ide­ol­ogy in the aver­age reporter to fill a thimble.”

Unfor­tu­nately, in much of today’s jour­nal­ism, nei­ther is there enough pas­sion, voice or sense of wonder.

Terry Heaton at AR&D: Decon­struct­ing pro­fes­sional jour­nal­ism. Excerpt:

Lipp­mann is the “father of pro­fes­sional jour­nal­ism,” and the apple
never falls very far from the tree. And so we’ve had decades of an
elit­ist press get­ting all comfy with the power bro­kers of the cul­ture —
in fact, becom­ing the NEW power bro­kers — and it is against this that
the peo­ple of the cul­ture are objecting.

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