Let us take a silent moment to mourn the death and suffering of our once great and powerful friend. Yes it is true, art is dead.

After thousands of years of joy and sadness and creativity, the old noble royal horse has hung its head to whither away and pass for the last time. Well, that may not be entirely true… But it certainly does feel like that. After All, when is the last time that you turned on your television to fox news and witnessed a brilliant and breathtaking story that made your heart break? How long has it been since you witnessed a truly inspiring report on CNN that made you contemplate the meaning of your very existence? Can you even remember the last time that you read a major report on something besides a brutal war in the east or a deadly disease that was rapidly fighting to get to your doorstep?

The name of the game for news has changed. What used to be an effective form of spreading intelligence and fact has deteriorated to a quick way to make fast cash. Two personal pieces of thought that I have carried away from my experience as a paid report are that stories pay and that there are never enough of them. Every day across America, large billion dollar news companies battle each other to find and report on what can be considered the most interesting and exciting stories. This of course leads to several key problems, the first of which being that we know have to live with hundreds of thousands of ambitious young reporters fighting each other to cram the most exciting and thrilling news onto our television screens and monitors. The second of which is that many beautiful and meaningful things in life are no longer considered, “newsworthy.”

So why is this a problem? Why does it matter that news has deteriorated into meaningless violence and shock television? I believe that the most important casualty of this cultural change has been the death of reporting as an art. A good news story was once a fine crafted humble work that would use intelligent phrasing and subject matter to entertain and inform the masses. This art form is now dying, and the news companies are thriving because of it.