The author is partly right, most of the media is spin and regurgitation of someone’s press release. So in that instance they’re the slave.
Yet, to the consumers of mass media they’re masters, editing out embarrassing or mitigating facts that don’t fit or reinforce their liberal worldview.
One reason journalism, government and teaching attract liberals is they crave control. They sometimes remind me of apprehensive psychology majors hoping their cure is found sitting in the chair rather than laying on the couch.
I wouldn't call them slaves so much as just lazy bums. If contents of a press release don't fit with their worldview, they criticize it mercilessly. Some of them even investigate, though I note that most of what passes for investigative journalism these days is pretty sloppy.
well said.