> the principal reason that political journalism exists: to hold decisionmakers accountable to the public

Green's point in this article is that traditional political journalism has made a mockery of this responsibility, and I for one agree with him.

We can't have Walter Cronkite anymore because political media has completely debauched itself. I'd rather have earnest if naive amateurs than however you want to describe what happens on Fox News and MSNBC. Maybe not exclusively, but at least as a counterbalance.