“The News” Ain’t What It Used to Be

Newspapers are literally shrinking and the clout of network television is disappearing even as blogs, cable TV, and talk radio are flourishing. Most people are getting their news coverage from a different set of media than just a few years ago. What are the implications? What are the opportunities? We’ll tell you.

The modern era's "dirty little secret" is that most people prefer entertainment to information.  Frankly, the old PBS model of being "an audiovisual educator of mankind" doesn't appeal to an .....