I wholeheartedly disagree. Your assessment is a popular false narrative that was invented recently by the "alt right", by professional disinformers (paid think

I wholeheartedly disagree. Your assessment is a popular false narrative that was invented recently by the "alt right", by professional disinformers (paid think tanks, troll farms, etc.) and by clickbait producers. I'm not claiming that you belong to any of those groups, just that these groups have influenced many people to parrot this false narrative. Unfortunately, people are easy to influence and repeat such kind of phrases. Two other points: 1. People are even more biased than you think, including you. It's impossible to have no bias, journalists have always been biased. Nothing has changed in that respect. If at all, journalists were way more politically biased in the 1970s than they are now. 2. Another thing has changed. There are now more people who think of themselves as journalists - all those bloggers and vloggers - without having learned the handcraft, and there are more parties interested in discrediting actual journalists than there used to be. 3. Unfortunately, people have started to loose understanding the distinction between editorials and news. That's the real reason why this false narrative is so successful. Even though all major newspapers clearly mark their editorials and opinion pieces, people ignore this and complain about "biases". I've seen this over and over again. At the same time, they are unable to state the main traits of news and the differences between news and opinion. To me, that's more a sign of increased illiteracy due to more visual media consumption than having anything to do with the quality of journalism. 4. Last but not least, basically everyone I've ever heard complaining about modern journalism think they know better what's going on in the world. How would that be possible? There is no way for them to know. And basically everybody who complains takes US TV network news as a kind of "lost gold standard" of journalism, which is plain ridiculous. The complaints are insubstantial, by people who do not consume the actual products like daily news or weekly newspapers any longer. In a nutshell, more people complain about weaker standards in journalism, because they know less about journalism.