Tuesday, June 03, 2008

The Great Mainstream Media Implosion

The Google network was coughing up hairballs much of yesterday and access to Kiko's House was on and off, so I'm putting up a link to this important post should you have missed it.
As someone who bled printers ink at newspapers for 35 years and has a second career as a blogger, the big message in former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's blockbuster of a book is not that George Bush is a resume without a man, that there was an orchestrated effort to lie to a public traumatized by the 9/11 attacks in the run-up to the Iraq war, or that Carl Rove makes Machiavelli look like a Boy Scout. It is that the mainstream news media's march toward irrelevance is well deserved.

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Illustration for The Economist by David Simonds

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