State of the news media: gloomy
Looking towards the second quarter of 2008, the state of the news media is not strong, at least not according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Key point: the media's agenda is narrowing, not broadening, as many had expected, because of the empowerment of bloggers. Network TV news viewership is at its lowest since 1999 and US News & World Report, Time, and Newsweek all lost ad pages from 2007. Yet the Inquirer calls it a win for old ...