Then what do you call what we much-maligned bloggers do now?
Why the 63-year-old Sawyer would want to enter this dying news genre confounds reason—unless she’s simply weary of rising in the early a.m. to appear on Good Morning America, which she’s co-hosted since 1999.
She obviously knows that the programs do less “real” journalism than they did in their 1960s-1970s heydays, when what they really excelled at was pointing to the headlines in that day’s New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal.
