The Decay of Journalism in America

The Other McCain gives us an inside look at the downfall of journalism. The Taylor Lorenz-ing of Journalism

A review of what it used to be like, and how we got to where we are today. Here is the opening paragraph. I can't call it a rant exactly. A lament? A Eulogy?

To explain what’s gone wrong with American journalism is a task so enormous that it’s hard to know where to begin. Whatever faults and failures the profession had back in the days of printing words on paper — yes, kids, that actually happened — there were nevertheless certain standards that were enforced, because you couldn’t just delete an article that got the facts wrong. No, if you got it wrong, you had to print a correction, and when I was at The Washington Times, we didn’t have to print very many of those, while we used to laugh at the numerous corrections that appeared every day on Page 2 of our hated cross-town rival, the Washington Post. Every word in the paper got read by at least four different editors before it went to print.

Read the whole thing. His article at The American Spectator is also worth your time. (A link is at the bottom of his post.)