Hows work? Martin asked. Behrouz was now a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, which these days seemed to mean as much video journalism as prose. Not bad. Behrouz smiled slightly. Business people might be the last paying market left for real news. If theyre convinced that theyre getting fearlessly objective information, theyll keep shelling out for it while everyone else gives up caring and buries their head inside their favourite consensual reality. Martin laughed softly, self-conscious but grateful for a few words of real conversation, a lifeline out of the pit. Youre not a fan of News Five Point Oh, then? Dont get me started. HigherTribe is worse, but theyre all pathological. What isnt filtered and spun is just invented out of whole cloth. Yeah. The replacement of journalism by rumour aggregators and group-think salons was a serious matter, but Martins enthusiasm for talking shop was already beginning to falter.
