An American newspaper that's worth saving (mine!)

[scoopmeister]

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002437.html

"But assigning blame won’t save the Philadelphia Daily News. Besides, much of the blame really lies with us, as journalists. We have, for the most part, allowed our product to become humorless and dull. In an era when it seems most people truly will be famous for 15 minutes, newspapers have stubbornly avoided creating personalities...or having a personality, for that matter. In a pathologically obsessive quest for two false goddesses - named Objectivity and Balance - we have completely ceded the great American political debate to talk radio, cable TV and the Internet, where people have learned that politics is actually interesting and even fun when people are allowed to take sides."

I hope you'll find time to read the whole thing, and maybe join in the discussion with your own ideas.