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.

Please click here to read more.

Illustration for The Economist by David Simonds