It’s been a long time since any organ of the Old Media was actually interested in reporting on the news, rather than in promoting its editors’ and publisher’s ideological preferences.

The Old Media are in a death spiral, locked into one behavior pattern and unable to break out of it even for their own survival. Their treatment of the 9/12 demonstrations should make that clear. The New Media had better gear up quickly; someone has to take up the slack. If no institution arises to handle the critical job of reporting the actual facts of current events, like the detectives at the precinct where the toilets were stolen, the American people will have nothing to go on.