Journalism died when Operating Mockingbird killed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
All that is left now are simulacrums pretending to be journalists.
Next step: the intelligence agencies create AIs and put them on the air—no need for humans who keep sexually assaulting each other. :-(
It was a huge mistake to bring in the paper clip Nazis to help us set up and organize the CIA after WWII. Their ideology infected the intelligence community and it and the other alphabets have morphed into a 4th branch of government that is more powerful than the other three combined. It is also unelected and above any oversight, either by the other three branches or civilian.
It is a goose stepping frankenstein with a nightmarish sci-fi spy apparatus that one former NAS director, I believe it was, warned us would one day stop being used to spy on our enemies, and would be turned inward to be used against We The People.