STEVEN HAYWARD: Scenes From The Media Meltdown. “The most obvious velleities of the major mainstream media today are, first, a hatred of Fox News, and second, a primal scream at the fact that over the last 25 years old fashioned print and broadcast media have shrunk more than coal mining. Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University’s famed journalism school, took to the pages of the New York Review of Books in a recent issue to lament the sorry state of journalism and wondering if the ‘broken media’ can be ‘saved,’ but offering a perfect expression of how out of touch the media is today.”

The media is “broken” because it is dominated by graduates of journalism schools, instead of blue collar reporters who learned their trade — and it is a trade, not a profession — on the job.