Why We Need the Media

Dan Gillmor's "Blogosphere," http://bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor brings up a very important point. In an age where journalism is facing credibility issues and reputation is being questioned, it is critical to remember that the media is the watchdog to government and powerful institutions. Like Gillmor says, it is a shame that the values of journalism should have to be compromised due to the outside influences it affects: investors. It is reasons like this that television has saturated the public with low brow programming (i.e tons of reality shows, artist reality shows- which only contributes to their bank accounts and viability), and perhaps even the sensationalist change in mainstream media outlets. Unfortunately the founding points of journalism are slowly being reduced, I would really hate to see it reduced to a mockery.