Who on earth voted for Ocasio-Cortez? Here’s your answer

Thank you for a very thoughtful reply. I have been on the “bias in the media” case since the Carter Administration. Initially I subscribed to the “Accuracy in Media” (AIM) Report - but after a year or so I was convinced of the existence of “bias in the media,” and example after example of it became a “twice-told tale.”
Ever since then my interest has been in why “the media” is “biased,” as the essential prerequisite to any possibility of addressing the problem. My conclusion is that altho “the media” includes fictional programming, there is no possibility of censoring fiction, and so the focus must be directed at topical nonfiction - i.e., journalism. And if journalism could be forced to be neutral as it pretends to be, other cultural areas would follow - at least to an extent.
OTOH it became clear to me that journalism as 1A intended to preserve it was not objective, and did not pretend to be so. And that claiming to be objective - like claiming to be wise - is actually a vice. So the question became, “When and what caused the change from the openly partisan - but for that very reason openly disputable, and in that sense fair - journalism of the founding era and the early Nineteenth Century to the equally partisan but one-sided, and made the more partisan by putative “objectivity” modern journalism.
You know that I now ascribe the change to the wire service in general and the AP in particular; I’m embarrassed to tell you how many ~~years~~ ^decades I pondered that question without ever thinking about the telegraph and the wire service. I agree that Establishment journalism is in decline, for the reasons you cite and because journalism has been doing its best to jump the shark. But it is still the commanding heights of propaganda in America. And that matters tremendously. Sad to say, but it does. Rod Rosenstein, Bob Mueller, and the top of the FBI - say nothing of Hillary Clinton as a viable politician - could not withstand the tenth part of the PR pressure to which President Trump has been subjected. Not even close. In that sense, politics as we know it is a joke. And it is a joke because journalists themselves could not withstand a moment of the kind of scrutiny they routinely impose on Republicans.
When you “quibble” about Sherman, I have two reactions:

"The best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it.” If Sherman is bad law, and if you try Establishment Journalism under it, Establishment Journalism will destroy that law.

The objective of the First Amendment is not to create a class of people known as “the press” who are above criticism and apart in that sense from the people like a nobility or a priesthood. The objective of the First Amendment is to assure that the people can read who/what they wanna. And Establishment Journalism has prejudiced not only the public but the government:

Government schools teach the objectivity of journalism.

The FEC has no legitimate mission if you accept the fact that journalism is not objective. The FCC has no business at all putting the imprimatur of the government on the broadcasting Establishment Journalism as objective fact.

And the 1964 NY Times v. Sullivan SCOTUS (9-0) decision turns the First Amendment against itself if it shields the “conspiracy against the public” which is Establishment journalism from the laws of libel when Republicans are libeled incessantly, and Democrats are never libeled. What remedy do you propose?

Kind of like someone going from community organizer to Senator to President.....only in the Left’s world....

I'm sorry to say that what you describe is not just true in the left's world .... but in American. It's bad enough that we elected the likes of Clinton but Obama was elected not just 1x but twice. Our nation is very sick and divided.

"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" - Psalms 11:3

Only a miracle will return us to our founding principals. Pray and work hard for political change, i.e., a change in the heart of our people.

I hear you - after the Clintons and Obama, we should probably be very afraid when a Ocasio-Cortez comes from nowhere to become a US Senator. Prays may help our personal souls, but I doubt God will step in to delay what He has already decreed will happen before Jesus returns.....we will degenerate into a fetid swamp.