Please allow me to rant for a moment about the state of the media. - TopicsExpress

Please allow me to rant for a moment about the state of the media. Its well known that CNN has gone from the network of Bernie Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett reporting live from Baghdad in 1991 to the network of kidnapped white girls. Our nations newspapers have, with the exception of The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal been almost entirely hollowed out. They are ghosts in a shell. Evening newscasts are jokes, and copycat television newsmagazines have turned into tabloids -- OK rather than Time. 60 Minutes lives on, suffering only the occasional scandal. More young Americans get their news from The Daily Show than from Brokaws replacement. Can you even name Brokaws replacement? I dont think I can. Meet the Press has become a joke since David Gregory took over. Well probably never get another Tim Russert. And of course Fox News and msnbc care more about telling their viewers what they want to hear than informing the national conversation in any meaningful way. And so we turn to the Internet for our salvation. We could have gotten it in The Huffington Post but we didnt. We could have gotten it in BuzzFeed, but it turns out that BuzzFeeds homepage is like CNNs but only more so. Listicles of the 28 young couples you know replace the kidnapped white girl. Same thing, different demographics. We kind of get it from VICE. In between the salacious articles about Atlanta strip clubs we get the occasional real reporting from North Korea or Donetsk. We celebrate these acts of journalistic bravery specifically because they are today so rare. VICE is so gonzo that its willing to do real journalism in actually dangerous areas! VICE is the savior of news! And we come to Ezra Klein. The great Ezra Klein of Wapo and msnbc. The man who, while a partisan, does not try to keep his own set of facts. He founded Vox. Personally I hoped that we would find a new home for serious journalism in a format that felt Internet-native and natural to people who grew up interacting with screens instead of interacting with screens from couches with bags of popcorn and a beer to keep their hands busy. And instead they write stupid stories about how you should wash your jeans instead of freezing them. To be fair their top headline right now is How a bill made it through the worst Congress ever. Which is better than you cant clean your jeans by freezing them. The jeans story is their most read story today. Followed by What microsoft doesnt get about tablets and Is 17 People really the best West Wing episode? Its hard to tell whos to blame. But someone should fix this shit.