You deserve to go straight to the head of the class.
...It is truly amazing how many people still believe the 'Mainstream Press' has any sort of prestige. As far as I'm concerned, the MSM lost all credibility during the 2000 presidential election when the all the major networks, MSNBC, and CNN worked tirelessly alongside the Florida Supreme Court to throw out the absentee military ballots and overturn the election results for former Vice President Gore. In doing so the network news division presidents and their underlings allowed their political ideology to dictate their actions and spin those actions as 'breaking news' and so on. This is not only unacceptable, it is reprehensible and repugnant.
Yes. Well, broadcast journalism is the linchpin of that, IMHO. People who don't read (not to say that they can't, but for sure they don't) listen to broadcast journalism and actually think they know "what is going on." The government gives broadcast licenses, and the licensees try to vindicate the government's decision to do so, on the basis that they tell us "what is going on." Well, if all you knew about "what is goning on" is what a Dan Rather type will tell you, you certainly would be ignorant!But we have been subject to a massive propaganda campaign to convince us that we have independent sources of information if we listen to more than one broadcast network. We don't; the networks are commercially competitive but they all have the same negative, superficial, arrogant, and cowardly perspetive. All the classic components of the makeup of the bully and the cynic, inherent in the commercial melieu in which "objective" journalists operate. And people wonder why "the media" is "biased!"