In the past, both here and elsewhere, I’ve mentioned how I think historians of fifty to one hundred years from now will regard our present day, and how they will write about in their history books.
Not as some sort of valiant successor to The Greatest Generation, righteously locked in battle against the forces of darkness. But rather as one of the stupidest generations in American history, which let nearly all of its democratic institutions fail simultaneously.
At the moment, I’m reading some fairly good documentation on one of the most important of those simultaneous failures: So Wrong for So Long, by Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher.
Consisting mainly of pieces from his Pressing Issues column, together with connective material which provides the context of what was happening at the time of each column, the book provides a chronological tour of the overwhelming failure of the press when it came to Iraq.
