The media, as it pertains to news and its responsibility as the 4th Estate, has for quite sometime been part of our entertainment industry. Most outlets are beholden to ratings and will feed the mass what it desires for revenue. This is why in the UK at the time of Diana's death the BBC stopped wall to wall coverage after about 24 hours, yet Americans had to endure two weeks of it.
I still have an electronic subscription to the New York Times. Although the slant is obvious in most cases, the quality of daily journalism is tough to beat. I monitor the Twitter feeds of the Brookings Institute, The Cato Institute and the Center for American Progress (also Humans Rights Watch, but its focus is too narrow to be considered in the previous group). I admit that I gave the Heritage Foundation a whirl for conservative perspective, but found them to be over the top (think Limbaugh and Hannity). I am now test driving the American Enterprise Institute for the conservative view of things and so far is measurably better than Heritage.
I still have an electronic subscription to the New York Times. Although the slant is obvious in most cases, the quality of daily journalism is tough to beat. I monitor the Twitter feeds of the Brookings Institute, The Cato Institute and the Center for American Progress (also Humans Rights Watch, but its focus is too narrow to be considered in the previous group). I admit that I gave the Heritage Foundation a whirl for conservative perspective, but found them to be over the top (think Limbaugh and Hannity). I am now test driving the American Enterprise Institute for the conservative view of things and so far is measurably better than Heritage.
