For The Real Story On New Journalism: Ask The Onion

With all that I've been writing lately about how the Net changes the role of journalism and how that affects news and media and content going forward, leave it to The Onion to put it all in perspective with the true story of 'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart.

According to Times insiders, nearly two dozen staffers, including four Pulitzer Prize winners and Baghdad correspondent John Burns, have requested transfers to the Times' Home & Garden and Travel desks.

To me, the kind of race to the bottom so expertly satirized here is as big an issue as falling newspaper profits.