TechDirt and MobHappy blogger Carlo Longino, a veteran technology journalist, wrote an insightful essay on his personal blog about why journalism is broken and what could be done to fix it. Carlo's rant was a response to Mark Cuban's post titled "Why Journalism Matters." From Carlo's essay:
The biggest problem facing the journalism world is its ongoing ignorance of opinion. Facts are often meaningless without interpretation. To act like bias and subjectivity in that interpretation don't exist is not only naïve, it's short-sighted. For all that people talk about wanting "just the facts", that isn't true, they want them interpreted and presented in some particular way – witness the popularity of Fox News, or the interest in things like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. It's this embrace of subjectivity that tends to separate old and new media, and is holding back journalism.
