Blah, most of the mainstream news pieces are simply regurgitation of press releases anyway (whitehouse or otherwise). Investigative journalism is dead because i

Blah, most of the mainstream news pieces are simply regurgitation of press releases anyway (whitehouse or otherwise). Investigative journalism is dead because it was a cost center. Good interviewing is dead because interviewers are scared to death that they won't get guests if they are seen as combative (aka ask hard questions). Even Charlie Rose seems to be tossing nothing but softballs for more than a decade. I stopped watching a few years ago because he stopped asking the questions that needed to be asked. The perfect example of how broken the western media is can be seen on their treatment of the WMD in iraq claim, for which the US went to war, spent Billions and killed tens if not hundreds of thousands. When the question of WMD in Iraq comes up, its all about the CIA's intelligence failures. But if you go rewatch the Colin Powell speech in front of the UN, its a joke. I remember watching it with a coworker, and we couldn't believe that the best evidence of WMD in iraq was artist renderings of hearsay. Yet, the media took it all like it was ironclad with pictures of the actual weapons, chemical analysis of what they contained, and first person witnesses. Not a single first or second tier news organization called it for what it was, BS. EDIT: I guess what I'm trying to say is that if all the traditional news outlets disappear its not really any loss at this point. The loss has already happened, the news is just a hollow shell of its former self. Which is why twitter provides a replacement. If all you do is repeat press releases, then what matters is who gets it out first. Thoughtful analysis, filtering the BS, fact checking, etc were the value add. But its gone, so the news isn't worth paying for. Those things were gone long before the internet started killing the zombies of the media.