Our post-journalistic world

I just read a fantastic article in The Atlantic by Mark Bowden, who was a beat reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 25 years (he now writes a current affairs column for the paper). So many people are jaded and conspiratorial about nearly every issue these days (this passes for wise and worldly), and what is often wrongly referred to as "journalism" has a lot to do with it—or so Bowden argues in this cogent analysis of the controversy surrounding the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Here's the link: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910/media

The dominant media ethos, according to Bowden: "Nobody is actually right about anything, no matter how certain they pretend to be. The truth is something that emerges from the cauldron of debate. No, not the truth: victory, because winning is way more important than being right. Power is the highest achievement. There is nothing new about this. But we never used to mistake it for journalism."