Out of crisis, a tough, truthful spirit

Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”

Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin in fine form: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage“

Excerpts:

• Journalism got corporate and soft … abetting easy routes to war and market chaos.
• As
  media ownership became concentrated in the hands of a few corporate
  giants, journalists too often came to reflect the ethos of those
  corporate giants.
  
• …the boomers got old and tired and, in the past decade or so, the neo-cons blew them off the map.
• We
  buckle too easily. When the Governor-General made her decision to
  sustain the Conservative government in office, she gave no explanation.
  Instead of demanding one, our media folded like deck chairs.
• There’s a dismaying conformity…
• The
  shakedown is coming. Let it bring with it a new spirit – a journalism
  that is tougher, less knee-jerk, less beholden to elites, more beholden
  to the truth.

Hear, hear.

Deborah Jones