The press is bought and paid for by those who make the news. If you are a main stream news network or newspaper they withhold access to you. Thats a fate worse than death. So you simply get along and never ask the hard questions.
You do know that you have to be invited to the big press conferences and pre-submit the questions. They pick what they will answer and who they call on. Its not news, its a show.
40 years ago the FBI would not be taking down the Gov. of New York, the press would have found that. They may have actually left the air conditioned building, put down their blackberry, made a few calls and followed somebody. What a novel idea. The press digging for a story. Those days are gone. Now the right or left of the media depends on the right or left of who controls that particular branch of the media. Not that Mr. Murdock would ever lean right
The other down side is the bloggers that many times rant on about something and don't verify anything. That too can start a firestorm of misinformation. The trick to survival is to read lots of sources and believe nothing at first glance.
Personally I prefer lots of pictures so I don't have to think too hard.
