(September 28, 2017 at 12:25 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: As I recall, 'Freedom of the Press' devolves to whomever happens to own a particular press. IOWs, if you are working for a newspaper and don't like its editorial slant your recourse isn't a free 1/2 page ad to run your opposing views to the owners, instead, it is to quit and start your own newspaper. (and compete in the marketplace)
While I do find 45s attacks on media calling all news fake vile and dangerous rhetoric, we do have cable media that blurs the difference between pundits and neutral journalism. There still are neutral objective reporters, it is just with mass competition corporate media has far too much of a tendency to blur the lines between opinion and reporting.
But between the left and the right in media, on average the objective journalists on the left do a far better job at fact checking. And while comedy shows like The Daily Show and Full Frontal are just that, they also still do a better job at fact checking than Farts News.