The New Media Order Is Not Yet Born

Katrina Vanden Heuvel is editor of the Nation, a small magazine with a fiercely loyal following. She says mainstream media outlets have operated as stenographers to power not as tough hard headed reporters. The fundamental problem remains without powerful media institutions to take on the powerful on behalf of the rest of us,. We become more vulnerable as a society to those who would use their influence for private gain, damn the public consequences.