Never the Same Mainstream Twice

[Audio] What makes the mainstream media mainstream? In 2004, the initials MSM became shorthand for critiques of the media as varied as, well, the media itself. Some likened the mainstream media to a dying political party. Others compared the MSM to the struggling legacy airline carriers. But whatever the metaphor, NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen, author of the weblog PRESSthink.org, tells Brooke that using the phrase is really just the easiest way to convey whatever you don’t like about the state of the news. [from OnTheMedia.org]