[joylyn]

I loved the line about the dinosaurs. Also, the phrase "preen with outrage" which exactly captures the attitude of journalists covering Katrina.

[Milhous]

Classic conservative prose. Bookmarked. :) You got to love how Goldberg weaves in the word Oldsmobile. An Xmas treat for guys like me who like to label Brokaw, Russert, Koppel, et al as Olds Media in honor of George Will's analysis that uses the Oldsmobile's slide into oblivion as a metaphor for Old Media.

Goldberg goes on to write:

Such nostalgia is understandable given the culture these men grew up in. In the post-World War II era, television journalism was almost a quasi-governmental institution. There were only three networks, and their news broadcasts set the national debate and drew the nation together in a way that had never happened before. Eventually, the establishment felt entitled to this arrangement. They forgot that this system was the unintended offspring of WWII and the Cold War and the advent of television. Before TV, American journalism was more boisterous and less revered.

Today's technological glitz notwithstanding, we are returning to the norm, and the guild-mentality consensus we've "enjoyed" this last half-century is evaporating and will likely never return.

In a droll moment Rather uses a chivalrous metaphor that agrees with Goldberg's analysis.

"CBS News has a culture, has a history that for those of us who work here, is very real — that we see it as a sort of magical mystical kingdom of journalistic knights — and I know I can mentally hear people rolling their eyes, that’s the way we feel." Dan Rather

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA