WHAT HAPPENED TO NEWSPAPERS?
American newspapers have changed. No longer art they for most an enjoyable morning or post-work tradition. The social function of staying current on developments and prevailing mindsets has been assumed incrementally by electronic and cyber media. The importance of “news” has become a factor of entertainment value. There are other forces at work globally that share little of the consensual worldview held by the arbiters of U.S. popular culture. GROUP THINK: How has Freedom of the Press been affected by the rapidly evolving U.S. media environment? The news is not all good. “Politically correct” attitudes are disseminated by the mass media, institutions of public learning, and even in the workplace courtesy of federal regulations. The very tenets of Marxism-Leninism that were defeated on the world stage in the Cold War are being imposed on impressionable minds in the United States by an elitist consensus that does not tolerate dissent and exploits the very freedoms it seeks to limit, to
