The notion no press body should be viewed as “clinically objective” is something I have been discussing for sometime. Jonah Goldberg visits that topic periodically. He notes the press of old used to be viciously partisan and the I note that today’s press and news outlets are starting to go partisan is not an aberration but a return to the norms.

Now-a-days it is dirt cheap to at least put one’s self into a position to garner a readership in the millions (Wretchard is testament to that, if he had to buy a multi-million dollar printing press to get this writing out would we be reading his work?) In the days of “clinically-objective” media it was sky-high expensive to get into the game so the model chosen was to bland news down and attempt to keep it “clinically-objective” (though, even in the old days I think most people would say the news leaned in one direction). This need drove print as well as broadcast media and hence the first stage of the newspaper die-off was the two paper model, two papers pushing the same view is redundant and one will necessarily die.

I think print media will resurrect but will do so in smaller circulation publications – closer to home and with a decided and obvious point of view.

BTW GO PACMAN GO!