Thursday, October 08, 2009

Decline of the media



For the next couple of blogs over several days, the topic of the decline of the media will be examined intensely. Well maybe not that intensely. Several causes lead to inescapable conclusions.


Primary to the decline of the print and internet media quality emerges from this image. It is of course a cup of coffee. And it is good coffee.


Yet one must ask oneself in a detached logical accent of a voice, does the increase of good coffee directly effect the sliding quality of the media reportage?


The relationship appears to be yes. In days gone by, reporters and editors could not get quality cups of coffee. Now that they can, coffee breaks are longer. Which means the storytelling around the coffe tables appears so excessive that it diffuses originality and the creativity of any sort of bullshitting.


So a turbid equation emerges. A theory proposed. Increases in the quality of coffee, leads to a comparative and proportional decline of print journalism.

1 comment:

Cinaedh said...

Sorry to advise you, journalism has nothing whatsoever to do with coffee, good or bad.

Journalism has to do with booze; quantity and not quality.