Narcissists like to think they are in the center of everything. Nixon's Watergate scandal transformed news reporting from a blue collar vocation to one attracting narcissists looking for fame. If you look at newspapers from before Nixon, very few articles have the reporter's name listed and personal opinions stayed out of it. Now the reporter's name is listed right after the title and you can often tell where they stand politically.
It's funny to think that not that long ago the popular image of a journalist (or newspaperman) was that of a hard drinking, chain smoking, rumpled suit wearing wreck of a man hustling to meet a deadline.
Now they're chardonnay sipping, arugula nibbling owners of weekend homes in the Hamptons or on Martha's Vineyard.