“In Kovach and Rosenstiel’s first woe-is-media tract, 1999’s Warp Speed, fellow Concerned Journalist David Halberstam set the tone in the introduction: ‘The past year has been, I think, the worst year for American journalism since I entered the profession forty-four years ago.’ It’s hard to distract men so despondent with news of such salutary post-1955 developments as female editors, 24-hour cable news, alternative weeklies, business journals, and fingertip access to 10,000 faraway newspapers.”

—Matt Welch on the Chicken Littles of journalism