Is journalism’s job to tell us what we need to know, or is it to promote cynicism towards society and naiveté towards government?People who assume it is the former are being conned by journalists who know it is the latter.
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton