Goodbye to Newspapers and All That

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. It has lost too much public respect. Courts that once treated it like a sleeping tiger now taunt it with insolent subpoenas and put in jail reporters who refuse to play ball with prosecutors. It is abused relentlessly on talk radio and in Internet blogs. It is easily bullied into acquiescing in the designs of a presidential propaganda machine determined to dominate the news...
This is Russell Baker in The New York Review of Books. If it was another person, I would have dismissed it. But I read Baker kaya na-tense ako bigla. Read the rest here.