He's a communications historian and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois.

And so on one side, you've got really big business, which includes the newspaper.

Big urban newspapers by this time are among the biggest businesses in the country.

hand you've got industrial working class and the conflict between these two groups is increasingly pitched at a fever level and the working class is increasingly downright hostile to the accounts that are circulating in the mainstream press.

Here's how Dan sums up the state of our union media-wise in the 21st century.

I've known people over the decades who use the word total.

It's a total calamity.

It's the totally worst calamity.

He's a communications historian and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois.

And so on one side you've got really big business which includes the newspaper.

Big urban newspapers by this time are among the biggest businesses in the country.

On the other hand, you've got industrial working class, and, um, the conflict between these two groups is increasingly pitched at a fever level, and the working class is increasingly downright hostile to the accounts that are circulating in the mainstream press.

Here's how Dan sums up the state of our union, media-wise, in the 21st century.

I've known people over the decades who use the word total.

It's a total calamity.

It's the totally worst.