What passes for journalism these days is just one more brand of reality TV. Entertainment for the angry. If it bleeds, it leads. Barring that, if you can get an angry economically disadvantaged person to yell at the camera about the oppression of "the Man", do that. Anything to tear someone else down. We buy into the 30-second sound bite with our MTV attention spans and believe we know all the "issues". We have endowed the roles of judge, jury and executioner all on the 6 o'clock news.
Even "articles" on the Internet and in print lack any substance. They have degenerated into little more than a headline, a teaser, and a two-paragraph blog post. McNews—information of the lowest common denominator.
