> We need to take some back, lest the rich and powerful run away from one of the last forces restraining them. What this neglects is that journalism is many t

> We need to take some back, lest the rich and powerful run away from one of the last forces restraining them. What this neglects is that journalism is many times in bed literally and figuratively with the rich and powerful. Anderson Cooper of CNN is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt one of the oldest monied families in America. While Andrew Cuomo the New York governor, was doing policies that resulted in high number of elderly nursing home deaths, CNN was showing segments with him chumming with his brother CNN anchor Chris Cuomo telling each other how they loved their brother. Andrea Mitchel of NBC is married to Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve. Many of the high level journalists are family members of the "rich and powerful". Many of them went to the same Ivy League schools. Many times, they live in the same neighborhoods and send their kids to the same private schools. If you expect the mainstream media or journalism to hold the rich and powerful in check, you will be just like a medieval peasant, expecting the bishops and cardinals of the Church, to hold the nobles and kings(who were often the older brothers, fathers, or uncles of these same bishops and cardinals) in check.