Journalism Doesn’t Exist

Scrolling through my feed, I see the title of a New Yorker piece, “Does Journalism Have a Future?” And then I keep on going, knowing exactly what’s in it without having to read it.
That’s true of most media products.
Journalism doesn’t have a future. It doesn’t even have a present.
Journalism isn’t the opposition research, hit pieces, narcissistic blogging, conspiracy theories and viral scandal manufacturing, with its satellites of hot takes, that passes for journalism these days.
Those are the eviscerated lifeless organs of journalism.
There are still individual journalists, but there’s no profession. And there hasn’t been one in a while. It’s hard to know exactly when the line was crossed. Was it Woodward and Bernstein, the Pentagon Papers, Bill Clinton, Dan Rather, Obama’s media entourage?
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