This is what happens when the media, paper and electronic, falls into the trap of Yellow Journalism. Any wet-behind-the-ears cub journalist should remember their history of journalism class in college about the effects of Yellow Journalism. It is disaster for them when they forget history’s lessons. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Satanaya.
The effects of Yellow Journalism is the eroding of confidence in the media. The Hearst papers of the early 20th century is a prime example of how yellow journalism not only effected our politics but is influenced a lawlessness that ruined lives and brought the Spanish American War of 1898.
More specifically, the fruit of other people’s initiative. Socialism has no mechanism for rewarding initiative because its founding principle is criticism, not performance. As T. Roosevelt pointed out, criticism is a lot easier than performance.