Daniel Greenfield, the Shillman journalism fellow at the Freedom Center, regularly comes up with original perspectives, reframing the media output we all consume into more realistic assessments.  His article at Frontpagemag today ties together a lot of recent events. He posits that the media have forsaken journalism, which is expensive, and converted to "story laundering" as their function, by which he means receiving and transcribing stories produced by interested parties.  This is undeniably true, in that newsrooms have been downsized and experienced pros replaced with Ben Rhodes's notorious description: "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns." The media is trying to cash in on the institutional legacy of the corporations that bear the old names, but have no functional resemblance to what the news business used to be. Today's media...(Read Full Post)