re: #534 Obdicut

And yet, with all the freedom our press has, they mainly choose to deliver to the lowest common denominator, and have begun to think of themselves entirely as entertainment, where there are now standards other than that of the perceived audience.

I have no idea how to reform the press, or whether the internet is going to make press far less institutional on a permanent basis.

A news network used to be an expensive proposition to build up and maintain: it had a certain reputation for reliability and integrity to defend, which prompted its own sense of quality control.

And they were limited in number by the technical limitations of radio and TV broadcasting.

Now anyone with a computer and a webcam can become a “news journalist” - and standards have gone down considerably.