> Nobody wants a return to the locker room ethos of earlier newsrooms where a mist of testosterone hung in the air, where every other desk had an opened bottle

> Nobody wants a return to the locker room ethos of earlier newsrooms where a mist of testosterone hung in the air, where every other desk had an opened bottle of scotch on it...Surely there is a path back from the milquetoastery of contemporary journalism to something approximating swagger. Maybe "swagger" and the "locker room ethos" are symbiotic, and trying to wipe away the latter killed (or at least weakened) the former? I don't think the world is so neat and tidy that we can have our ideological cake and eat it too, and I'm sure lot of fashionable programs will have severe consequences (due to subtle and not-so-subtle contradictions). If doesn't help that actual output often seems pretty far down on the list of priorities, and as a society there seems to be little appetite do deal with predictable problems before they become absolute disasters (and sometimes not even then).