I'm so old I remember back when journalists, real journalists, like Mike Royko would consider it compromising his credentials to accept party invites from the people he was covering. He thought he needed to stay on the outside looking in to be a good journalist. Now most so-called journalists are part and parcel with elitists and nothing more than an elitist cheering section.
We need a Royko to puncture all the Goebbelsmedia lies, he laughed them out of court with ridicule.