From Rolling Stone, Bush's Lap Dogs: What happened to DC's watchdogs? From CJR, Brent Cunningham on the rhetoric beat: Why journalism needs one. A review of Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today by Tom Brokaw. Five of the nation's top newspaper companies are taking steps to create a national online advertising network they hope will help them recapture ad revenue leaking away from their print products. Is fake news now the standard? TV journalism is increasingly playing to the Colberts and Stewarts to attract younger viewers. Brian Williams could've been an excellent "Saturday Night Live" host — he was not.
