With elected Democratic leaders directing chants like “Fuck Trump,” news and TV outlets carrying on like everything is like Watergate or the next “gotcha scandal,” no wonder Americans have given up hope of trusting their government. Americans are numb from an almost PTSD syndrome of watching the evening news. Republicans share just as much of the blame, their inability to govern or pass meaningful legislation and one of their own yelling, “you lie,” during the State of the Union highlights their fecklessness. Sadly, our current brood of politicians or more respectfully, elected officials, indeed, our ruling class seems to be completely void of class.
While the state of American journalism may be at an all-time low, it is incumbent upon journalists and all newspapers and news outlets to clean up their acts. It is one thing to take a philosophical bent or view of things, one is entitled to one’s opinion, but it is another thing entirely to become the mouthpiece of a political party and consistently seek to create one’s own facts. First Amendment protections aside, many of today’s “news outlets” should run the risk of regulation, given their biases are so unscrupulous that their reports border on in-kind campaign contributions to candidates and political Parties.
