During the financial crisis - one thing has become obvious. Since the rise of amateur journalism and self obsession on the internet, rational debate has become confined into smaller circles. This has created a deprivation of authority, a universal disbelief in culture and a new form of social equivalence.
Now the media are writing about the death of journalism after a time when a too ready acceptance of perverse leadership led America down a terrifying path. Now the actions of red-blooded Americans have done more damage to the American dream than terrorism. The media lagged behind bloggers criticizing the actions of the Bush Administration. It was not until after 2004 that mainstream media started to question the Bush agenda. By then it was already too late.
The media had failed to inform the public and it just gets worse. The financial crisis "could not have been predicted", but it was. By many. But the media restrained itself from investigating the biggest crimes in history.
Individuals with no investigative journalism out did the media on many counts. Our respect for media authority has been assaulted. This is entirely due to the dumbing down from talking about facts into talking about celebrity diets and fads that the media felt is necessary as that is what people view on the internet.
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