Was hoping when I started this story for a #goodlongread, but I think Lewis still raises some important and perhaps fundamental issues with our journalistic institutions. That's not to say the lack of depth isn't disappointing: I would've liked some more discussion about why this is happening, how it's affecting your average American, how to support meaningful investigative reporting, etc. Perhaps we can have that discussion here instead?
kleinbl00, I know you've expressed some interest in the future of journalism vis-à-vis news gathering over dissemination. (My apologies if others have too; this story just made me think of klein off the bat.)
They don't call it the journalism charity, they call it the journalism industry. And hey - yay CPIC. But I mean, fuck. You've got to be some kind of jackass if you think you can send up your boss as an example of how not to do business. The fact that said boss was actually astoundingly cool about it says something, especially when your organization straight up made up shit about Audi just a few years earlier. Let's talk about 60 minutes, shall we? What Al Pacino in The Insider actually looks like How to hand the 2004 election to Bush Sweeten a Tesla segment with internal combustion samples y'know why print journalism has always been and will always be skeptical of broadcast journalism? Because it's fucking expensive. In order to pay for it, you need a lot of sponsorship. To get a lot of sponsorship, you need a lot of eyeballs. And eyeballs like sensationalism. Chuck Lewis knows this. Yet somehow he thinks Al Capone's Vault by Geraldo is somehow less sensationalist than sabotaging his own boss on air. You want better news? Set the WABAC Machine to 1987.