Journalism on hold
Howard Kurtz chronicles how the mainstream press is falling over itself to more or less create a mythological figure out of Barack Obama, how the media have echewed reporting actual news in favor of sculpting an image.
At the same time, major media outlets continue to watch their readership/viewership drop off, their stock prices fall, and their layoffs mount. According to Rupert Murdoch, the media have no one to blame but themselves: “My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the internet is this: it’s not newspapers that might become obsolete. It’s some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper’s most precious asset: the bond with its readers.”
