THE DEATH OF JOURNALISM

John Nichols and Robert McChesney report in article in the Nation, "The implications are clear: if our policy-makers do nothing, if "business as usual" prevails, we face a future where there will be relatively few paid journalists working in competing newsrooms with editors, fact-checkers, travel budgets and institutional support. Vast areas of public life and government activity will take place in the dark--as is already the case in many statehouses across the country. Independent and insightful coverage of the basic workings of local, state and federal government, and of our many interventions and occupations abroad, is disappearing as rapidly as the rainforests. The political implications are dire. Just as a brown planet cannot renew itself, so an uninformed electorate cannot renew democracy. Popular rule doesn't work without an informed citizenry, and an informed citizenry cannot exist without credible journalism"

WELL WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? WE NEED A PROTEST ON CAPITOL HILL? WE NEED TO GET MEDIA ATTENTION THAT CANT BE IGNORED? IS IT POSSIBLE?