I remember visiting bookstores in the 1980s where a groaning, overburdened shelf entitled “Media Criticism” might be found. The gist of that massive stack of books was that media consolidation, brought about by the then current moves towards deregulation, would be the death of journalism. And it most certainly was.
We ended up with a dead form of journalism where the “neutral” straight news was plainly biased in favor of whatever beast owned the paper. Journalism keeps dying and it appears to be the death of a thousand cuts.
The latest sign that journalism is dead? Right-wingers have finally discovered “Media Criticism” – thirty years after the fact.
