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What Now? What Next?

• Schudson, Ch. 5, "The Problem of News in Our Day: Recent Changes in Journalism," pp. 90-116.

• Gary Kamiya, “The Death of The News,” Salon.com, Tuesday, February 17, 2009.
• Amanda Michel, “Get Off the Bus: The future of pro-am journalism,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2009.
• Clay Shirky, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” http://www.shirky.com/weblog/ March 2009

How does Schudson suggest we approach trends towards cynicism and infotainment in news? What does Schudson mean by the tendency to report politics as a game rather than politics as policy? Has the trend towards entertainment in news been accelerating? Are these trends reflected worldwide? What factors came together to make possible "Monicagate"? What does Schudson mean by the trend of increasing "institutional news coherence"?