Journalism is Dead

[Professor S]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11716.html

In the stories the new boss is encouraging, first-person writing and emotive language are okay.

So is scrapping the stonefaced approach to journalism that accepts politicians’ statements at face value and offers equal treatment to all sides of an argument. Instead, reporters are encouraged to throw away the weasel words and call it like they see it when they think public officials have revealed themselves as phonies or flip-floppers.

The new approach was on display in a Liz Sidoti news analysis written earlier this month with the lead, “John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement.”

Last week Beth Fouhy’s dispatch on her feelings about the end of Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign began, “I miss Hillary.”

When I was in school taking my journalism classes, reporting like this was considered "Yellow Journalism" and was considered on the same level as tabloid sensationalism. Now the most important news organization in the world has become everything it used to stand against.

Yet another straw on the back of my "Moving to Austrlia" camel.