The American Media: Failure's Maidservants

The National Post, Free Republic
Sat, 09/17/2011 - 2:34am

As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States - with a double-dip recession now all but certain - a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama's rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions.

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