Telling Week for the MSM?
Politico’s Michael Calderone wonders if there’s a connection between CNN’s October ratings and the rapidly decreasing newspaper circulation among big city papers, and if that connection is a gradual lack of interest in impartial news produced for a broad audience:
With the proliferation of media across platforms these days, there’s less shared knowledge among people, who are increasingly heading to niche outlets for information. At the same time, there’s a large appetite for the new media world where the MSM gatekeepers no longer hold as much clout, and “he said, she said” journalism gives way to strong point of view. Just last night, NYU hosted a debate among prominent journalists on the subject: “Good Riddance to Mainstream Media.”
And in today’s cable news universe, [Eric] Alterman said, “politics without a slant, without a point of view, is interesting to very few people.”
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