And let's not forget...dangerous to American national security.
Let's also not forget this may not be just "a couple of years"
The media has been given free rein to take sides in the political process, and this last election showed just how unfettered and unashamed they are to do just that.
Beginning again very soon, the media will begin to spin the giant wheel every day, and each day they will select a subject to hammer the current President and any conservatives (or other non-liberal Republicans...)
It may be "The culture of corruption" one day, it may be Iraq, Iran or North Korea another day, it may be the economy, immigration, health care, prisoner abuse in Gitmo, "domestic" spying, some sex scandal, Republican links to the "Religious Right", abortion, homosexual rights or any other unlimited number of things.
It makes absolutely zero difference whether the charges and allegations are true, whether liberals are equally bad, or whether the Democrats even have any plan whatsoever to combat, fix, change or overhaul anything.
The media will do what they did leading up to the last election, because...it worked. What they did was the equivalent to throwing spaghetti against the wall. They did not take more than a quick look to see if anything was sticking, if it looked like it was sticking, they would throw more of that. Otherwise, they would grab a different subject nearly at random and bring it back to the forefront of the news, throw it against the wall and see what was sticking. They hardly took a breath in between handfuls of crap.
The effect on the "undecided" middle block of voters was the equivalent of Chinese Water Torture...drip...drip...drip...every day, all day 24x7 365 days a year. It had that same depressing effect on nearly anyone who took the time to read papers and watch the news. (Neither of which I do, BTW...I simply keep tabs on what they talk about and how they talk about it)
The cumulative effect is a negative one for the particular target of this campaign...which we all know is NOT the Democrats. So...we need to both get used to this, and find a way to counter it. The dinosaur media will eventually step into the tar pits (and, in many cases are already mired and sinking but do not know it) but until they do so they still wield a power over the spineless, mindless "Undecided Voters".