The Decline of the Media Dinosaurs
The content has become diffuse, predictable, boring. In particular, with the triumph of "professional" journalism schools, and the credentialism that followed, "mainstream" journalists have come to represent a single, tedious class. Newspapers are now editorially staffed, overwhelmingly, by members of this one class, who think and sound like sociology majors, and express themselves in a jargon stream of pompous, preachy, preening, vaguely leftist and reptilian drivel.