The very public collapse of the so-called journalism field
'Post Journalism'--
- "We have seen it all the last two years:
- Weeping journalists on election night; a journalist openly promising to help make Obama successful ("Yeah, it is my job.");
- film takes of journalists cheering an Obama speech;
- the savaging of Sarah Palin and the hands-off treatment of Biden;
- soft-ball interviews and long puff-pieces on Obama as the young cool crusader;
- comparisons to JFK's Camelot, and on and on.
- There will come a time in the year ahead when either Obama's unexamined past will come back to haunt him, or his inexperience and tentativeness in foreign affairs will be embarrassingly apparent, or his European-socialist agenda for domestic programs simply won't work. And as public opinion falls, what will MSNBC, the New York Times, the editors of Newsweek, a Chris Matthews or the anchors at the major networks say?
- In short, we live now in the Age of Post-Journalism.
- All that was before is now over, as this generation of journalists voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion of objectivity and they will have no idea quite
- how to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again."
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