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"What is dying -- and rightfully so -- is the staid, establishment-serving, passion-free, access-desperate, mindless stenographic model to which establishment journalism rigidly adheres."
I've noticed that the alterante weeklies such as Burlington VT's "Seven Days" and the "Tampa Bay Planet" hold out glimmering flickers of light amid the fog of dull, predigested establishment reporting. Even when I was a reporter in the 1980s I was told by editors that "this is too complicated for the average reader" and "nobody cares about that issue" and that arrogant quotations that made some member of the local establishment look arrogant had to be excised from stories. Coverage of courthouse events was done by dull, predicatble stemography and space in the weekend papers was taken up with the formulaic story of this festival, that festival and the other festival.
