The End of Days

Ostensibly, media’s role in covering the 2004 elections was to provide an objective representation of each campaign, realistically it functioned as an agent not of objectivity but rather, of subjectivity. Increasingly readers turned to opinion editorials for “their news;” news that confirms rather than questions. News no longer has that objectivity about it (nothing too profound here), it preaches subjective analysis more accessibly (through the blogoshpere), persuasively (by aligning itself with religious groups) and more passionately (by iconized op. ed. writers) It has become a medium akin to any major religion. It chooses exaltation rather than information. Its preachers are pundits and parrots eagerly bickering over wedge themes pandering to the lowest common denominator. Punditry offers little promise to a profession riddled with un-educated scintillates. If the Pundit is Batman, than surely the blogger is his Robin. Together this bumbling team inches the web closer to uselessness. It is in this desolate oasis of forumism and blogsphereism that journalism lies awaiting its apocalypse.