"""In ten years, there will still b...

2009-07-21T21:02:12.750-06:00

"""In ten years, there will still be newspapers. But they'll be owned by local television stations, who will have taken over as the main supplier of news content."""

You may be right, but I hope not. One of the more depressing features of local television news programs is that they tell you on Monday what's going to be in Tuesday's news. By definition that isn't "news", though it might possibly be commentary.

Today's standards of journalism on television are incredibly low. Most of the material put out by the networks is infotainment, not news, and the local stations are going the same way. Corporate America has bought the news media, so it's no longer sensible to expect to learn anything very useful from them.

Newspaper standards have also declined, meaning that governments and corporations can get away with any corrupt practices they want (vide the castrated and anodyne coverage from "embedded" reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan).

There aren't any Cronkites around any more.

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