
The Brief
Get Up To SpeedMainstream media is dying. The network evening news audience is in steady decline; the big three magazine publishers, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst have all closed or consolidated titles; and the newspaper industry has been especially ravaged, with dailies folding across the country. Increasingly people get their news from the internet and from cable channels. Advertisers are moving on to Google and other non-traditional sources. Do these developments leave us better off? The democratization of news, in an unfiltered internet to which all bloggers and news aggregators have equal access, is a good thing. It encourages a diversity of voices, competing to provide information and analysis. Others argue that the public loses when traditional journalistic standards are no longer upheld, and where resources to investigate and report critical stories are no longer available. Can mainstream media re-invent itself to thrive in a digital age? Does it matter?
View Debate PageJohn Hockenberry

- Co-Host, The Takeaway
John Hockenberry January/February 2008
Joe Nocera May 3, 2008
Huma Yusuf July 17, 2008
Jim VandeHei

- Executive Director, Politico
Jim VandeHei January 23, 2007
Jean Yves Chainon February 16, 2007
Gabriel Sherman March 4, 2009
Richard Pérez-Peña December 14, 2008
Michael Wolff

- Columnist, Vanity Fair
Michael Wolff August 12, 2009
Mark Cuban August 8, 2009
Mark Cuban August 12, 2009
Michael Wolff October 2009
Michael Wolff November 2009
Michael Wolff August 2009
Katrina vanden Heuvel

- Editor & Publisher, The Nation
Terrorism is not an enemy that threatens the existence of our nation; our response should not undermine the very values that define America for ourselves and the rest of the world.
But even with Republicans in control of Congress, neither [Trump] nor his Cabinet of bankers, billionaires and generals will have a free hand. Resistance will come, not only in the streets but also from leaders in states and cities who are intent on making America better.