While I mostly agree with ricpic as well, there are a few old style reporters left. One of them is Charlie LeDuff at the Detroit News, wonderfully profiled by Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard several months ago. He left the cushy confines of the NYT to return home and document the continued decline of a once-great city, as thankless and distasteful (to his elitist East Coast media peers, anyway) as that is. While I hardly read the local paper anymore, it’s good to know that a guy like him is there to shine a light on our criminally inept city (and state) government, one that is a perfect example of how Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ was a monumental failure – and one that President Obama wants to rinse and repeat ad nauseum.