Saturday, March 12, 2011

Abnormal is normal

The Atlantic's James Fallows on "Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media":
The news business has never been stable. ... Indeed, the relative stability of big media in the golden-age decades after World War II left a misleading impression of how tumultuous the news business had been through most of America’s past. The mid-1940s to the late 1970s was a time when newspapers were fat, national magazines were widely read, and TV news reports were sober and “responsible.” Like the idealized sitcoms of the same era—Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show, Happy Days—they presented as normal and traditional what was in fact an exceptional moment in American existence.
The question, as Fallows explores in his thoughtful piece, is what comes next.

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