It's an inside job--suicide.
When these jackasses decided to convert the American newsmedia into a propaganda machine, they sealed its doom.
When they opted for the "higher morality" of the 60's counter-culture hippie movement, they made themselves the laughing stock of history and all the world. Too bad they were too stupid to comprehend that the new "higher morality" was nothing more than the old immorality, that what they were opting for was mendacity over truth.
Their most dispicable failure was rejection of truth. Truth for its own sake is the objective that they abandoned, though the obvious fact that truth as a means of informing the electorate is essential for the effective functioning of a republic also seems to have escaped them, either their comprehension or their concern.
However, the funniest thing about their failure--and the single most important factor in sealing their doom--is their blindness to the obvious: propaganda is boring, truth fascinating! This is what has made them such a laughing stock and their silly decision to become a propaganda machine so ridiculous.
It's an inside job--suicide.
The elite mediot maggot infected owners/controllers of ABCNNBCBS and publishers of the major dinosaur fishwraps are the modern day, Norman Bates. They are trying to keep the corpses alive by refusing to admit that they are dead and to bury them.
Buy my Dinosaur Fishwrap stock, NYT. The old gray lady is just fine!