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The New Journalism: Same as the Old Journalism

- August 4, 2013

bq. As a result, most Americans still get news that is largely filtered through the debates happening among political elites in Washington. To be sure, this process is more complicated today. But the content of political news has not been revolutionized. Journalists, whether in the new media or old, still play a game according to very similar rules as did their 20th-century predecessors. In some ways, those “old times” the president referred to are right now.

That is Danny Hayes over at Wonkblog, pivoting off of Obama’s comments this week.  See also this Brendan Nyhan post linked therein.