They’re getting old and viewership and readership is dwindling... they need a training camp for propagandists, not just parrots. The press is all parrots now, disseminating talking points, often word for word. Imagine what they could do if they were trained and organized propagandists from the outset.
Let’s put this into prospective. Newspaper journalism is now pretty limited...mostly because there’s no profit for newspapers.
The TV journalists? If you check the big three networks, and the dynamic duo of MSNBC and CNN...there’s a fairly limited audience for their situation.
Time and NewsWeak? Both are dissolving.
So the only real possibility left is the blog world. If you were a kid offered opportunities in life...trying to make some small wage deal via the blog world or spending two years at a community college in robotic design...I think I’d take the community college route.
What I see is 50k dimwit 18-year olds who suddenly get Axelrod’s message and decide to enter college next August...in journalism. They get themselves $60k in debt and find themselves living in dad’s garage in seven years...mostly because of bad advice.