Fixed.
Researching news (though, hardly done these days)- producing news-broadcasting news-in short, the entire galaxy of tasks associated wit the ‘news business’ costs money.
Ideally this is done to inform and identify ‘public opinion’...
Not satisfied to be the guardians of the common weal, to revere or protect the right of the public to honest and complete information, ‘journalists’ now, CREATE public opinion.
Want to know the source and nature of ‘public opinion’? Well... follow the money! Money and the mindless, pathologically selfish lust for attention reduced ‘journalists’ to the level of sharks on the blood scent.
Unprincipled, biased and wholly dishonest ‘journalists’ get to play God with the facts. The fate and futures of individuals, groups, whole nations is their TOY.
There’s NOT one honest individual in the whole business and if they ever had the esteem of honest Americans-they squandered it long ago.