Romenesko

Boston Phoenix
Political commentators can try to keep things from getting even worse, writes Adam Reilly in column about pundits' the reliance on a junior-high vernacular. The texture of today's media landscape is part of the problem, he says. "We are, after all, witnessing the twilight of the media gods, in which the New York Timeses and CBS Newses of the world have to scratch and claw to pull us away from Gawker, Sean Hannity, and countless other news-ish entities that are frequently more entertaining (in a junk-food-for-the-brain kind of way) than their old-media rivals."