Journalism is dead. Technological changes allow individuals direct access to information that bypasses the liberal arts major types that write about things that they don’t understand. As an example, once blog readers had access to images of the Bush Texas National Guard memos, experts in typewriter fonts quickly realized that the memos were fakes. CBS journalists writing about the memos didn’t catch the problem, but expert readers did.
In the specific case of President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, the physical evidence of President Clinton’s semen on Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress proved that he had, at best, been extremely misleading in his grand jury testimony. Slick Willy the lawyer was able to successfully argue the meaning of the word “is”, but the whole world knows the result of the genetic testing.
