The Columbia Journalism Review has a pair of worthy essays this issue. One sheds light on what is the matter with the television interview by professional journalists: their subjects have been trained to dodge them by professional trainers. The link above will take you to it.
The other, which is the cover story for this issue, explores the blandness of contemporary editorial illustration. A side benefit is a brief explanation of how the "op-ed" page emerged in the 1970s and its devolution since.
Little Murders
I am also bemused by the symmetry of these pieces. One is about verbal behavior in a visual medium while the other is about visual depiction in a print medium. In both cases we are witnessing the decline in the quality of behavior and depcition by the practicioners of the media and the concommitant decline in the intellectual demands made of the observers and readers of the media.