Here’s Madeleine “the price was worth it” Albright on one of the things she misses, quoted in an interesting Washington Post article on things that are going the way of the dinosaur:

“Network nightly news broadcasts as a source of common information and national unity. Opinions differed, but Americans began thinking with the same images and facts in mind, brought to them by experienced journalists. If you cared about national or world affairs, you scheduled dinner before or after the nightly serving of Cronkite, Rather, Brokaw or Jennings.”

That tells you everything you need to know about the Washington elites’ opinions of the new media and their desire to control what average Americans see and hear about what’s going on in the world.