Timothy Burke on Why the Washington Post Would Do Us All a Favor by Shutting Down Now

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Timothy Burke:

Islands in the Mire « Easily Distracted: Try to imagine, if you will, a person buried alive, growing desperately weak, fighting and struggling... to reach up through the dirt in order to grab some nearby stones to pile on top of his grave.

That’s what watching the contemporary scene of mainstream journalism is like these days. Every day there’s some new bit of incremental suicide. Just take the last week. We had...