Conversations with I

Another of those conversations which I had last week (the first conversation of the series can be found here)..
I was thinking why do I read newspapers. Good journalism seems to be dead. Apart from a few brilliant pieces here and there, what has remained is sheer sensationalism and tabloid culture. Who is to blame for this sorry state of affairs? The media should shoulder a huge part of the blame. But partly the blame should fall on the public at large. After all the target audience wants it and the media caters to it. What have we come down to in the name of progress. Silly sting operations? Judging the morality of others? Taking cheap shots? The latest example of taking cheap shots is send hate mail to Saurav Ganguly by TOI. Whats up with these guys? Can we please concentrate on creating better pieces of journalistic literature than raking up false controversy and hullabaloo?