New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has ended a 10-year run with this piece which largely agrees with my description of how the mainstream media has changed over the decades. That is a major theme of “A Grand Strategy: Countering China, Taming Technology, and Restoring the Media,” seen here on Amazon.
Here are a couple of key passages from Bruni’s column:
“I worried, and continue to worry, about the degree to which I and other journalists–opinion writers, especially–have contributed to the dynamics we decry; the toxic tenor of American discourse, the furious pitch of American politics, the volume and vitriol of it all…
“There aren’t as many clicks in cooling tempers and complicating people’s understanding of situations as there are in stoking their rage.”
