Deep Throat's unveiling came at a new media moment, at the apogee of talk TV, which hews to a value system predicated on who can shout simplistic syllogisms the loudest and make the most outlandish ahistorical pronouncements. The new media model routinely accords equal time and weight to two opposing views without regard to whether one might be factually demonstrable and the other off the deep end...(Mediabistro)
Carl Bernstein skewers the "New Media"
Honest public debate is a prerequisite for a healthy democracy. Carl Bernstein, writing about the "unmasking" of Deep Throat in this month's Vanity Fair, identifies a litany of reasons why real debate rarely occurs these days in the US news media.
