Wire services aren't much of a problem when the whole industry is dying.
Commercially successful journalists all obey that rule. The inevitable result is that journalists have a predilection towards criticism of society, and of anyone who labor to earn respect by actually working to a bottom line.
Not the smartest comment of the day. Journalists go where they think there is a story. Sometimes they stumble on things that even you might regard as abuses or scandals. You are mistaking the general liberal outlook of the press with specific muckraking behavior which often comes up with abuses in government and business that end up costing those hard-working people much in hard-earned cash.
Journalists do sometimes report on government abuses, but only under two conditions:
- the abuse can be laid at the feet of a Republican, and
- correcting the abuse calls for even more government.