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Um olhar - a queda do 'jornalismo institucional' na américa

As mais recentes dificuldades do presidente norte-americano, George Bush, dão o mote para uma prosa provocatória e (naturalmente) discutível sobre o estado do jornalismo nos Estados Unidos - este 'All the King's Media', de William Greider, no The Nation.
Excertos:
1. "Heroic truth-tellers in the Watergate saga, the established media are now in disrepute, scandalized by unreliable "news" and over-intimate attachments to powerful court insiders. The major media stood too close to the throne, deferred too eagerly to the king's twisted version of reality and his lust for war. The institutions of "news" failed democracy on monumental matters. In fact, the contemporary system looks a lot more like the ancien régime than its practitioners realize. Control is top-down and centralized. Information is shaped (and tainted) by the proximity of leading news-gatherers to the royal court and by their great distance from people and ordinary experience".
2. "People do find ways to inform themselves, as best they can, when the regular "news" is not reliable (...) The centralized institutions of press and broadcasting are being challenged and steadily eroded by widening circles of unlicensed "news" agents--from talk-radio hosts to Internet bloggers and others--who compete with the official press to be believed. These interlopers speak in a different language and from many different angles of vision. Less authoritative, but more democratic. The upheaval has only just begun, but already even the best newspapers are hemorrhaging circulation".
Encontrei a referência no blog de Dan Gillmor.