Internet video, like television before it, has reduced the value of traditional text based political journalism

This article was originally published by International Business Times. Demagogues of the world, right or left, have got to love television. The linear, emotion-driven, passive, and image-centred medium has reduced politics to a reality-show. As Neil Postman posited in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, television has vastly downgraded the level of public discourse in most…