When speaking of the media, it’s become fashionable to roll your eyes, allude bitterly to the cable chat-fests or some embarrassing reality-TV show, and shrug the subject away. Because, my dear, the media nowadays are so sensational, so polarizing, so stupid and unsophisticated, they’re not even worth discussing. But they’re destroying us.
It’s weird so many intelligent people can continue to believe this…
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21 March | 12:21 | Maud
I respectfully, and completely, disagree with this statement, "Here's who had their say on the war question: everybody."
23 March | 10:16 | billy
All I can say, Josh, is that I'm glad you're stateside and reporting on education instead of rolling along with a tank battalion and reporting on rumour.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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