[GOPJ]

...but I guess they have their own agenda.

Badass, seems you've found a key to understanding the MSM - the missing puzzle piece of perverse incentives... If the purpose of access isn't to increase their ability to gather news for their viewers, what's it for? This is a real question... I have no idea on this one - but it feels important. Any ideas?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Journalists now think of themselves as shapers of opinion who provide "interpretation and analysis" instead of accurate facts.

This idea seemed to be pushed by the commies at the Columbia U School of Journalism and obviously plays on the self-image of the type of people who want to be journalists, the ones I knew being invariably sanctimonious.