Good Riddance to the Mainstream Media? Not Quite Yet
The New York Times’ David Carr stole the show at last night’s Intelligence Squared debate on the merits of the mainstream media, when he pulled out a print out of fellow debater Michael Wolff’s website Newser all full of holes. Carr had cut out every story on Newser that came from the main stream media to prove his point: new media couldn’t exist without venerable mainstream pubs like the Times.
Ultimately, Carr’s side – debating against the proposition “Good Riddance to the Mainstream Media” – won the night, with 68 percent of the audience agreeing that we should not, in fact, say good riddance to the MSM.
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