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Chris Nolan – Politics from Left to Right: News and George W. Bush

This is an excellent essay from Chris Nolan on the true state of journalism in the country. She nails it. But the following comment I found ironic:

Journalists are told by their editors that it is somehow beneath them to make high salaries. They are warned about displays or bias or partisanship and, if they stay in the game, they often end up with the sort of restrictive social lives where they talk only to other reporters. This is the media bubble. And it’s ruined reporting. It’s also made Washington, D.C., once an interesting place to live nothing more than a set of professionally-oriented company town ghettos.

First she should also mention that much of this philosophy as well as dubious ethical axoims all come from the New York Times, which lords it over all the other papers. The irony comes from the fact that by literally training journalists to live cheap and suffer they’ve actually trained legions of bloggers who may as well work for free. Nolan herself is a highly trained pro and there are now hundreds out there pumping out copy for the general public. Much of it is far better than what they print in the papers. Thus the papers are slowly contributing to their own marginalization. Cheap bastards.