But today I want to discuss another dinosaur, one that may be on the road to extinction. I am referring to the American media. And I use the term extinction literally. To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.
—Michael Chrichton, April 7, 1993.
I think he’s right. I think in the past ten years the “mass media” has become as much of an oligarchy (except for the Internet, which is still fairly devalued by, surprise surprise, the rest of the mass media) as our government has.
Well, as I look around, CNN, dead, the NYT, dead, MSNBC, dead, and that’s leaving out the GOP propaganda outlets.