Not only is the style bad. The journalists all seem to have a rather narrow and uniform political agenda now. I don't see any suspicion of large, centralized

Not only is the style bad. The journalists all seem to have a rather narrow and uniform political agenda now. I don't see any suspicion of large, centralized projects, the way they used to be suspicious of these things in the past. Its enough now it seems for a political group to declare that there is a particular purpose for a policy, and the policy is analyzed strictly from the perspective of its goals ... nobody seems to talk about tradeoffs and other possible outcomes in any great depth. Which is tragic, given how failure prone almost every Federal grand program has been in the long run, from the war on drugs, to the war in Iraq, to housing subsidies, to subsidized student debt.