"Is it a friend to the fourth estate, on which democracy depends, or an enemy?"
Just.. wow. Suddenly changing the business landscape for an industry(hastening the change, really) becomes a political issue?
Just.. wow. Suddenly changing the business landscape for an industry(hastening the change, really) becomes a political issue?
Ironically, after how they covered the Iraq war, it seems it it is the fourth estate that has sold their soul.
You seem to think that coverage of the Iraq war was special/different. How cute.
Journalism and journalists haven't changed recently. Your awareness of them has. (I like to say that there was a change in the mid 70s, but that's probably my awareness changing.)
would you say that to my face?
Why not? Are you a thug?
journalism has changed in the past 30 to 40 years with the rise of the 24/7 news cycle and consolidation of TV news organizations under corporate control.
So? I'm occasionally rude.
The changes in journalism are distribution and a perception of who is pulling the strings. However, strings were always being pulled.
And, the perception of who is pulling the strings hasn't actually changed. Folks have been complaining about big biz, "outside agents", etc for as long as news has existed. They wouldn't have called it "big rail", but ....