I can remember when the major news media organizations served a valuable purpose by keeping politicians under their investigative microscopes, which may or may not have kept those politicians honest, but at least kept the public reasonably well-informed when they were making trouble.
Decades have passed since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post were digging out the facts about what all the president's men were up to, and the term news media has increasingly been used in reference to television news programs, most of which are less about accurate reporting of events, and more about providing "infotainment" or even worse, blatant right-wing propaganda. That has made the mainstream news media sources useless to me, although MSNBC occasionally presents some accurate reporting.
Added 4:04 PM: How many candidates for the Republican party's nomination for president have promised to start slitting the throats of federal bureaucrats on their first day? I can't think of any. Between the numerous criminal indictments facing the waste of shit, and the pledge made by Runny DeSanitized in his speech, it's safe to consider the former GOP a thing of the past, like dinosaurs.
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