Well, my comments go back to what I said about journalism not being a monolithic culture. My view is even more extreme -- I'd say there are actually many _cultures_ of journalism.
I think you're right, in regards to some of them. There are expedient and exploitative scum right there in the very open at the very top of the journalism world -- in some parts of it. (And you're also right about the bias of the various media used to _implement_ journalism in the contemporary world. There are cultural biases that make conservative journalism next to impossible, and there are explicit technical bias built into all the different media -- different media, different technical biases. In many cases, these technical biases make conservative journalism difficult.
In the "mainstream" the situation is hopeless. But if a person "shops around" and knows what he's looking for, he can usually find what he wants in terms of objective info. Mark W.