Deprecating legacy systems as new technology became available. In the information systems world, the word "legacy" implies outdated and inefficient hardware and processes to deliver data. And that's the place where I think the U.S. media resides.
In describing the media, I don't think that anyone wants to imply that the information points they provide us (the data, if you will) is, by default, incorrect or faulty. Taking in news in the information age that we're in is like drinking from a fire hose. There's just so much information, and too little time for reporters and editors to properly distill and analyze the raw information (for the most part). By the time that a true commentator or analyst has actually looked at the data points and drawn some supportable conclusions, everyone else in the world has moved on, because information continues to flow in a torrent.
So, if I use the term "legacy media", it's not really a derogatory or dismissive term. It's describing a media that, by it's own admission and financial results, is losing ground rapidly to our own ability to distill and interpret raw information (such as we do daily, here on Kos and other internet venues). But "legacy" also implies that there was (and is) value in both the methodologies and processes that bring us the information.
Honestly, it just fits.
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