Journalism, "the press", isn't used to being called out. They used to be the ones beyond reproach, the defenders of the faith.
Now, struggling for readership and revenue /income, they have been riding the coattails of watered down investigative reporting with a flash of click-bait and "social mood". That's to say they aren't following an immutable compass but rather the vagaries of the day, hoping one of those spaghetti strands sticks one day and saves them.
They are too often chasing acceptance in hopes this will drive up revenues.
I'm not sure they ever were the fourth estate, but certainly now with their self interested survival on the line, they don't even try to fake it any more.
Now, struggling for readership and revenue /income, they have been riding the coattails of watered down investigative reporting with a flash of click-bait and "social mood". That's to say they aren't following an immutable compass but rather the vagaries of the day, hoping one of those spaghetti strands sticks one day and saves them.
They are too often chasing acceptance in hopes this will drive up revenues.
I'm not sure they ever were the fourth estate, but certainly now with their self interested survival on the line, they don't even try to fake it any more.