The New Media

Take note of this article in the Washington Monthly. Focusing on the tale of James Glassman, the article makes an interesting observation about where the press might be going. Here's the graff that carries it into the thrust of the essay:

James Glassman and TCS have given birth to something quite new in Washington: journo-lobbying. It's an innovation driven primarily by the influence industry. Lobbying firms that once specialized in gaining person-to-person access to key decision-makers have branched out. The new game is to dominate the entire intellectual environment in which officials make policy decisions, which means funding everything from think tanks to issue ads to phony grassroots pressure groups. But the institution that most affects the intellectual atmosphere in Washington, the media, has also proven the hardest for K Street to influence--until now.

Very interesting read.