Elegy For A Rubber Stamp

Harper's by Lewis H. Lapham | Aug. 24, 2008 (Opinion)

Long ago in the days before journalists became celebrities, their enterprise was reviled and poorly paid, and it was understood by working newspapermen that the presence of more than two people at their funeral could be taken as a sign that they had disgraced the profession.

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Dwight Rousu
4.3
 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Not only does the viewpoint resonate with my experience viewing the corporate news, but it includes some exquisite quotes and turns of phrase. For example: "What we now know as the “news media” serve at the pleasure of the corporate sponsor, their purpose not to tell truth to the powerful but to transmit lies to the powerless."

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