From NYRB, Michael Massing on a new horizon for the news. A review of Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy by Alex S. Jones (and more and more). From Editor & Publisher, an article on the future of news, viewed from Aspen's rarefied atmosphere. From Splice Today, here are five key reasons why newspapers are failing — and why they don’t get talked about much (and part 2); and is Michael Wolff part of the problem? The Newser honcho recently tore in to Frank Rich, but Wolff's guilty of the same insider flaws. A media bailout is coming: They’ll think up some sort of half-a**ed rationale for it. An interview with Robert McChesney on media capitalism, the state, and 21st century media democracy struggles. An interview with Steve Rendall of the media monitoring organization FAIR on corporate bias. Once the richest, and perhaps the happiest, newspaper in America, The Washington Post faces the same grim odds as the rest of the industry, but unlike The New York Times’s Sulzberger family, the Post’s Grahams have time, popularity, and pragmatism on their side. What’s a big city without a newspaper? A former reporter from Philadelphia returns to the place that could end up being the first without a daily. Can anyone tap the $100 billion potential of hyperlocal news?