Charles P. Pierce:

The pack is bigger and more unruly. Everybody’s on deadline all the time. (Twitter! File for the blog! Generate Content Across Many Platforms!) There are more — and, occasionally, better — watchdogs, especially on the Intertoobz, but even a lot of that is now hyper-amplified heckling. The marketing people are better at their jobs than the journalism people are at theirs. But, among all the problems that have gotten worse and not better since Crouse wrote his book, it’s is the latter consideration, the chickenshit bosses back home, that has done the real damage. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/new-york-times-public-editor-on-truth-6638107#ixzz1jJc4nIrH