Next on the reading list

The Baltimore Sun has a nice review of Ken Auletta's new bio of Ted Turner. As expected, it contains some points supportive of our vision.:

If the march of human history represents clear-cut progress, well, then, all that consolidation would be swell. But it's hard to be buoyed by the current state of the media. Some innovations, even in the corporate press, are welcome ... Meantime, mainstream news organizations, suffering from dwindling ratings and circulation, traffic in endless tales of celebrity suffering, true crime, health fads and can't-miss diets - all indulgences that, like empty calories, fill us up without giving sustenance. Many of the stories we might need to function as citizens - or might give pleasure, inspiration or unexpected pause - go undiscovered.