Media races towards irrelevancy

By Libby

For crying out loud, even Dana Millbank is losing his grip on reality. In a sneering piece on Obama's "failure to be interesting," he falls into the same self-absorbed fixation on what 'teh media' believes are the most urgent issues on the public mind. Meaning ginned-up scandals like the non-existent Obama-Blago connection and the equally imaginary tension between Clinton and our President elect.

As I said in a post at DetNews, the big reason the elite media is failing is because the headlines more and more resemble standing in line at the grocery store and scanning the tabloids that line the aisle. If we want meaningless gossip, we'll read the tabloids. If the journalists want to save their industry I suggest they start committing some actual journalism.

Dana snarks about needing No-Doz at Obama press avails. I might remind Mr. Millbank that they had to invent Ambien once the media finally ran out of Whitewater stories to put America to sleep. The only reason they got away with it then, is there was no alternative. Now we have the intertubes and if we want to read idiotic speculation about fake outrages, we have wingnut blogs for that. If they want to keep their market share, they might consider delivering a product that rises above that niche, rather than trying to wallow on the 'polite' fringe edges of that low rent, muck-slinging district.

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