You can't fight city hall.
Well, you can, but eventually city hall either buys off or kills the opposition. It’d be hard to kill congresscritters, so the alternative is to buy them off, which, is apparently working..
We used to have news reporters in the press that actually asked who? What? When? Why? Where? How?
Now we just have producers who set up que cards off camera view from press releases written by the same people who should be answering those questions.
It's shameful.