You nailed it toward the end. Journalism is struggling to catch up with instantness, and bloggers have muscled in and dirtied the field; the current decline, I think, started with 24-hour cable news and was only accelerated by the Internet. News channels airing opinion -- MSNBC, Fox News -- is also troublesome.
It's not entirely journalism's fault, either, as culturally we have begun to demand instant gratification and journalism responds as the market expects. Same with entertainment news. As Aaron Sorkin wrote, there is a debate between ratings driving content or content driving ratings -- sadly, too often, the former holds true.
It's not entirely journalism's fault, either, as culturally we have begun to demand instant gratification and journalism responds as the market expects. Same with entertainment news. As Aaron Sorkin wrote, there is a debate between ratings driving content or content driving ratings -- sadly, too often, the former holds true.