The Nation | blogs.phillynews.com
The gloom in the room at a recent conference in honor of Harvard's Shorenstein Center was painfully palpable, says
Eric Alterman. "Lord knows, the arrogance of the MSM drives me crazier than anyone, since it's my job to track it," he writes. "But for all the
tsuris they cause, nobody has come close to finding a substitute for the crucial role newspapers and the news play in holding our society together." ||
Philly Confidential: A young journalist is somewhat anxious, too.
