With a very few exceptions, nobody revealed the truth about who was spinning what under the cloak of unnamed sources. And the few journalists who did try to name names received sharp professional criticism from their peers for doing it. If journalists don't want to pay more attention to the quality of public debate on a level of principle, Fuller said, they would do well to look to their self-interest. The gravest consequence of the crisis of inauthenticity, I believe, is an increasing alienation from the political order. This is not good news for my business.
People actively involved in the public life of their community are almost always newspaper readers.
So as people's interest flags, so does their appetite for newspapers.