You suck, Media

For the last decade I've loved watching the media die. Its been a slow death, I wish it could be slower. These over-educated, self-important buffoons can't figure out why their industry is dying 

Via Instapundit we have this internal memo from the Boston Globe on its latest bought of restructuring. Here's my favorite part:

Newsroom culture. It will analyze how we can become a more nimble learning culture, with a collective understanding that we need to constantly experiment and change, tolerate failure, and become more entrepreneurial. This will require more training across the room, but what kind of training do we need? How do we transform our mindset? How, in general, do we behave more like a startup and less like a legacy company as we fight for our lives?
Workflows. Consider this the byplay between print and digital. What's getting in the way of us becoming a more streamlined and effective digital-thinking organization? How do we take advantage of every position we have? Again, who needs what training? Do we need a separate print desk? Can we free up department heads from the obligation of filling sections? Do we have the right technology?
Editorial mission. This looks at where we devote our resources -- and why? Should we still be covering the same beats we have for the past half century? Should we have beats? Should we have departments, or at least the ones we have now? Is there a better way to present our material online and in print? Can we get away from certain kinds of stories and coverage areas and redirect our resources to focus on specific aspects of greater Boston?

That's a of word salad on internal process, what goes where, who gets what. Process is real important here.

Now here's a clip of Tucker Carlson trying to get to the bottom of a story with a Newsweek journo Kurt Eichenwald:

Now, about the 3 minute mark he starts talking about how he was reporting a story, who he talked to, when and such. Again we see an obsession with process rather than news. In their world its the process that it's important. Eichenwald even says, 'I'm giving reporting process here'. Eichenwald spends six minutes trying to take us through the process. The end of this is breathtaking as he over explains the CIA. 

Imagine asking Eichenwald if the sun rises in the east, he couldn't give a one word answer, he'd have to explain the process by which he reported that the sun rises in the east.

These organization are the are news and in their minds, they are the news. 

Its not the news that matters to them, its the process by which they report the news that matters to them.

As the late Andrew Bretibart (PBUH) once said, dear media, it's not your business model that sucks, it's you that sucks.