Has the rise of 24-hour cable news made TV journalism less cynical, less pandering, less idiotic than what Chayefsky imagined?
The visuals were fantastic; the journalism, less so.
The good news is that Stewart who spent years smearing good and deserving projects while at the LA Weekly, the standard bearer of yellow journalism in Los Angeles, was less than poker faced about her messaging strategy for the NIMBY dog and pony show.
In a piece entitled "We need a new model for tech journalism," Ball calls for nothing less than the dismantling of the current tech press, and its replacement by one far more critical of the corporate interests that dominate the industry.
His resurgence owed something to the success with which he concealed his disability, something to an age when journalism was less intrusive than it has since become.
This suggests, albeit unscientifically, that the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism is less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding.
They have filed a motion to dismiss the suit, arguing that the First Amendment protects their publications no less than mainstream financial journalism.
Barber's endorsement income, which he believes he will have to forfeit for the sake of his journalism career, is now only slightly less than that of his football salary: four and a half million dollars a year.
It is, moreover, hard for journalists to accept the fact that journalism in its highest reaches matters less than mundane information.
