Recently MSNBC's David Shuster made a big no-no. While talking about Chelsea Clinton's role in her mother's campaign, he kinda-sorta called her a 'ho.

"Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"

Oops. Watch the clip here:

As you can imagine, a whole firestorm has come up out of this (click here to see what Media Matters has to say about it) 

I wrote a column for my school's newspaper, The GW Hatchet, in which I ask the question: Is the media pimping out politics?

There's still so much election coverage - I can't wait to see what comes out of these talking-heads' mouths in the months to come. Will Bill O'Reilly accidentally say the N-word? Will Lou Dobbs blame his chronic diarrhea on bad Mexican food that upset his stomach? 

My first video assignment here at Campus Progress was to create a short promo video for CP's West Coast Youth Journalism Conference, being held later this month in LA. It was a fun clip to edit, but it really got me thinking about the current state of journalism, and what the future of journalism holds in years to come.

But first, check out the video~!

In this digital world where any idiot can run a blog (hey, that's me...), and the current state of journalism is constantly changing to adapt to new technologies, the future existence of traditional news mediums like newspaper and television seem to be threatened. Perhaps only one thing remains certain– there will always be a need for news, as well as good journalists to provide it.

But as the news business has continued to change in the face of the Internet, many journalists and news corporations are learning that in order to stay afloat in this highly competitive field they must embrace online news and its “new media,” as it is often called, or else risk falling behind the rest by losing readers, advertisers, and the financial resources necessary to stay alive. Since the early days of the Internet, newspapers have led the charge in digitizing the news for online readers, and what started off as a mere experiment has now turned into a news revolution and changed the way in which millions of people around the world get their news.

Today, it is not uncommon for some of the most popular online news sites to present the same story with text, pictures, video, graphs and interactive maps. However, as the news continues to reinvent itself so far as how it is presented online, obnoxious advertisements seen before video clips and on the sides of articles (not to mention the dreaded pop-ups,) can easily annoy users, causing them to leave and find their news elsewhere. Online news sites must figure out how to continue to profit from online advertising without hampering the viewers’ experience through overly obnoxious advertising techniques.

So will newspapers bite the dust? I don't think so... at least, not anytime soon. So long as there are people riding trains to work, sitting on toilets, etc., print journalism is gonna stick around. But that's not to say that online news won't continue to flourish and reinvent itself.

In fact, I go most places in Washington, D.C. these days with a small camera at all times - just so that when something crazy happens (and, believe me, something crazy does happen all the time in this city!) I'll be able to document it and send it over to CNN.com as an iReporter! YESSSSsss...