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DARRELL WEST: One of the things that I hoped to avoid when we put together this panel was what I would refer to as the politics of nostalgia, where we all kind of look back on the good old days of Walter Cronkite and Woodward and Bernstein and think, “Oh, if only we could go back there, things would be better.”
You know, we’re never going to go back there. You know, we can envision lots of different scenarios for the future. None of them involve re-creating the media world that existed 30 and 40 years ago. So the question is really how can we move forward.
I think what a lot of people ignore about the current era is there certainly are some problems with the new digital world, but there are some clear strengths as well, strengths and even exceed what we had in the glory days of objective journalism in the 1960s.
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