Everybody realizes the media is broken
…including this latest piece by Krugman on how broken it is. So why isn’t it changing somehow? The New York Times took a step in the right direction when it started the Public Editor column. Others should follow along. But the whole tenor of political coverage is truly awful. It seems that every blogger, since the inception of the medium, has been talking about the failings of the mainstream media; if there’s anything on which left and right agree, it’s that the mainstream media do a terrible job.
So with all this input, and all this realization from so many sides, why doesn’t anything change? Do YouTube debates, or their non-stage-managed ilk, need to become central to the race before anything happens?
Inertia.
Comment by Jamie — November 18, 2007 @ 9:28 pm
I agree.
If the cow keeps giving milk, then you’ve got a metaphor. I mean, why stop milking it?
Comment by chris r — November 19, 2007 @ 8:53 am