Newspapers risk becoming irrelevant
How did all the pundits get it so wrong? Simple. They wanted to shape opinion, not provide information. They looked in the wrong places and came up empty. The Krauthammers, Krugmans, Reichs, Roves and the rest. How did they get it so wrong?
It wasn’t to be found in the intellectually sterile halls of academe. It wasn’t in newsrooms or the comfort zones of reporters. It wasn’t in the watering holes of the elites. It was out there for the taking, available to anyone who would risk being marginalized or declared irrelevant. It was available to anyone who hadn’t lost the common touch, to anyone who could feel it.
Newspapers have to come to grips with their readers, risk filling their empty columns with those they don’t agree with, or they will soon be marginalized and irrelevant.
Daniel I. Morris
Waynesburg