https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/11/03/how-the-gray-lady-became-margaret-dumont/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 07:57:22 -0400<![CDATA[Almost ten years ago veteran journalist William McGowan wrote Coloring the News, a devastating look at how a lethal cocktail of political correctness, multiculturalism, and what is now commonly known as an obsession with &#8220;social justice&#8221; helped lobotomize the newspaper industry&#8217;s collective ability to reason. As Mark Steyn once said, &#8220;In 1978, having driven your print competitors out of business, you could afford to be a dull city newspaper,&#8221; but by the late 1990s, PC and bias made them even more sclerotic, effete and unreadable, and it&#8217;s no wonder that if the industry was determined to finish itself off, the Blogosphere was more than happy to come along to complete the job for them.]]>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:25:01 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2010/11/03/how-the-gray-lady-became-margaret-dumont-n252774