We Don't Want Journalism Back

You can put the toothpaste back by opening the other end of the tube.

But who wants to brush their teeth with toothpaste that was scraped off the bathroom sink?

Do we really want the dingbats and dingleberries that Kahn described as the people who decide what is news and what the facts are? When I was a youngun, a wise newspaperman explained to me that the power of the press belongs to the man who owns the presses. NYT and the rest abused that power. We will not give it back to them.

Thus the answer to Taibbi’s question “Is Journalism Back?” is no. Journalists abandoned objectivity. Readers have decided that they do not want the journalists back.