Jay Rosen takes a useful look at Journalism & Big Media (or MSM – Main Stream Media to some). I like this:

• The real job of journalism is to help make the public lfe of the nation work well.

• For journalists, the rise of citizen comment on the Internet should be something to celebrate and learn from.

• The bias discourse has descended into meaninglessness, which doesn’t meant the press isn’t trapped by its own preconceptions.

• The survival of Big Media is not critical, the survival of journalism is. There’s a big difference between those two.

• Bloggers "who care about facts and ideas," and there are many of those, should be wary of the Orwellians on their own side, who are themselves engaged in propaganda– the charge they are most likely to hurl at others.