Romenesko

Slate
"Sound familiar?" asks Jack Shafer in his piece on W. Joseph Campbell's book, "The Year That Defined American Journalism." Shafer writes: "The journalistic upheavals documented in [the book] speak across the centuries because our media atmosphere is equally volatile, what with the emergence of the Web, the proliferation of cable TV news and opinion, the decline of newspapers, and the rancorous debate over standards. All this would be grist for a book that sought to define 1997 as another defining fin de siecle year for journalism."