I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. he who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. - Thomas Jefferson
People act as if the media has become this way in recent years but the reality is that the media has never been any other way. Its always been subject to the opinions and biases of its writers and none of them are infallible.
I do look to the progressive era as a time when media deliberately set out to misinform with men like Walter Lippman and George Creel openly declaring a duty to do so.
I'm well aware --NOW -- that the news has always been biased. Look at Walter Cronkite. Back in the day, he was considered the most trustworthy newsman on the planet, Didn't really realize till years later, watching tapes of some of his broadcasts, just how biased he really was,
Just seems to me that in recent years, the bias has worsened, facts are omitted or altered to suit a particular agenda. Take the Berlin tragedy. When I first saw "breaking news " on ABC, the news reader bent himself into a pretzel emphasizing that it was not known whether the incident was an accident or an act of terrir. Even when it was obvious this was no accident, the media carefully avoided any notion that the suspect might be a Muslim terrorist. Meanwhile, when there have been mass shootings in the states, such as the killings in San Bernardino, the media had no problem blaming the killings on those bitter clinger, right wing gun nuts. Every tragedy is used to promote a leftist agenda,
I used to be able to trust Breitbart. But now that Breitbart is a propaganda medium for Trump, I can't trust it anymore. We are at the mercy of conspiracy nut outlets and disinformation campaigns. The media, in effect is contributing to the destruction of America as we know it. How can we keep this country from turning into a banana republic if the citizens are not properly and truthfully informed enough to make decisions on its future?