Until or unless the MSM remembers what their actual role is... they are criminally irresponsible with their incessant meddling in events.
It's NOT about THEM... they should REPORT... not EDIT or CREATE news. PERIOD!
They have made themselves irrelevant to any reasoning voters... they need to return to their charter... unbiased and responsible fact collecting and broadcasting.
Except that if Congress where to start making laws governing News Media outlets, all hell breaks lose.
We’ll cry and cry and then they’ll make laws, then we’ll cry and cry and cry even more.
The press is criminally RESPONSIBLE! What communists/totalitarians/control-freaks coerce, the American media enthusiastically provides. No dictator ever had it as easy as the big gov’t types here in the US.
I think telling the media that there role is to be “objective” is what they want to hear.
But that really is not their role. The problem is *not* that the media is not “objective”, it is that the media has become a unicultural oligopoly where dissent is not allowed. They owe their allegence not to truth, but to advancing the leftist agenda. The origninal vision of a free press was one where there were multiple competeing outlets, all with their own agendas and ideologies.
It is the centralization of the media that has caused such great damage; and it is by design, since 1900, and it is the decentralization and the creation of the new media that is giving us hope.