A thoughtful column from Prof. Reynolds, wherein he picks up on an observation made by David Gergen on Hardball:
MATTHEWS: David Gergen, the consequences to journalism here, bottom line.
GERGEN: Chris, it strikes me that this might be one of those famous tipping points, that, when you have a series of blunders, scandals, what have you, in the mainstream media, that, at a certain point, the press gets - the public gets fed up…
Reynolds says: Let’s hope so. Tipping points come in a variety of forms. In some of them, the tippees survive and flourish. In others they become extinct. (Newsweek) still has a chance to be one of the former, rather than one of the latter — but with even David Gergen chiming in, there seems little room for doubt that the tipping point is upon us. Editors and publishers take heed.
Hmmm…Gergen talked about a “tipping point” on Monday night. But I’d wondered about a tipping point, on another issue, on Monday morning!
May 18th, 2005 at 10:55 am
Now that the final chapter is written, 60 Minutes Wednesday is cancelled, the tale can be told — Dan Rather was the media party’s extinction meteor.