I miss news. Real news, that is. I appreciate the vast volume of information, news and opinion now available to me online and offline. But there is one byproduct of the digital age that I’m not so crazy about: the rise of Fake News and demise of legacy journalism. I often think about what the Watergate investigation would have been like in the modern news era. Would the constant barrage of thinly veiled opinion disguised as outrage have hindered or helped the investigation? How would social media have swayed public opinion? After the Watergate break-in, instead of proudly declaring, “I am not a crook,” would President Nixon have argued he […]
