Yago: "We Live in a Time When the News Business is Held in Such Low Esteem"

He talked about what he thinks of the current state of the industry.

“Right now we live in a time when the news business is held in such low esteem,” said Yago. “As long as I’ve been working in television broadcast journalism, I can think of half a dozen stories, from the election night in 2000, to the run-up of the Iraq war, to the handling of this financial crisis just to name three, where the media totally missed the boat on the story, or in certain cases was an active participant in disinformation.”

So what can Media Project do to change that? “We would like to be part of provoking the conversation about what the solution is, not just pointing out what the problems are,” he said.

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