Bloghound

For anyone interested in changes in journalism and the rise of citizen bloggers, don’t miss last night’s “What’s Happening to the News, ” the third installment of Frontline’s superb four-part investigation into what’s happening to the news.

While journalism was once viewed as a public service, the program shows how it’s devolved into infotainment with the goal of making money, not helping to inform and enlighten the public. (Which is why Frontline is always so refreshing as it represents thorough, insightful reporting at it’s best. It hasn’t sacrificed standards like the network news and the cable bigs like CNN.)

I was amazed at the defensiveness of the old line media executives, and the dismissiveness of Nicholas Lemann,the dean of Columbia’s Journalism School regarding bloggers, calling blogs “church newsletters.”

There’s a reason why our media consumption is changing. The root causes hold some answers for the what was once the mainstream media.

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