Nov 2015 - We're in a golden age of opinion journalism

so says something that's reported in this story.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-hard-news-in-danger-opinion-taking-over/article/2576145

Hard news faces the same kind of extinction as newspapers and magazines, the result of a dramatic death spiral of reporting jobs and ads and the rise of the type of opinion journalism popular two and three centuries ago, according to a new report and analysis.

The report detailed a fall-off in advertising revenues and employment and raised the question that without editorial employees filtering the news, credibility will be undermined.

Filling in the hard news gap appears to be more opinion journalism.

At a conference to discuss the report, for example, Emma Green, managing editor of TheAtlantic.com, said that the media is shifting to more opinion news.

• There are half as many people reporting on the news than four decades ago, to just over 32,000.
• Daily newspapers have gone from a high of nearly 1,800 in 1945 to about 400.
• Circulation per capita has dropped below 15 percent.

For the younger generation, news is delivered through comedy.

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