Positive View

Twenty years ago the Los Angeles Times was a mighty power. Today it totters from one savage cost-cut and forced retirement to the next. Will the broadsheets and tabloids vanish? Not in the foreseeable future, any more than trains disappeared after the advent of the Interstate system. A mature industry will yield income and attract investors interested in money or power long after its glory days are over. But it’s a world in decline and a propaganda system in decay.

Jeffrey St. Clair on the future of information systems.


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