Yes, but they are answering to a boss. There is more to it. The press is just another expendable pawn, another stooge in the equation. They are jumping to someone elses orders... We no longer have a "free" or "independent" press in this country. As much as I enjoy bashing the lamestream press, they are only a cog in the machine.
Figure out who is at the helm of that machine and you have identified the real enemy of this nation. We will have to cut the head off of this snake too... Chopping away at its tail will only anger the snake...
I don't disagree with anything you write, but, journalists always pretend to be the mouthpiece for the downtrodden, the advocate of the weak or victimized if you will -- this sold papers for decades and now the agenda has changed in that many journalists have also embraced a liberal/socialist/elitist political agenda they were taught by the liberal minions inhabiting J-schools. A mind of mush seems easy to mold.