As the week began, Time Magazine political sage Mark Halperin offered “5 reasons to bet AGAINST major health care reform passing this year.” His first four reasons were logical, if debatable—that one sixth of the economy “can’t be remade

This moment in the history of journalism is like being present at the Big Bang, and reality has turned inside out. Mighty and once-monolithic outlets are going poof! into black holes, and the news business itself is disintegrating into a million little pieces. Meanwhile, an audience which used to consist of billions of individuals is congealing into one gigantic, sticky web

Such a tizzy over 32 words. Twice as many, if perhaps not yet as famous and controversial as George W. Bush’s 16 inaccurate words about African yellowcake, but getting there,

“Journalism isn’t dying. More people than ever are consuming news.” This is said to me by someone with the best of intentions. I’m meant to see this as a reason for feeling positive, optimistic. A sunny little factoid pulled from a statistic that I don’t necessarily believe or trust.