> The bias of the Economist is well known. Same for the NYT and the Guardian I used to regard those type of institutions as pillars of the mainstream media an

> The bias of the Economist is well known. Same for the NYT and the Guardian I used to regard those type of institutions as pillars of the mainstream media and as such as very solid members of the Fourth Estate. I used to think that we do need a non-partisan, even independent Fourth Estate for our democracy to actually work. My realisation that those media institutions were very biased and as such that the Fourth Estate was itself biased and non-independent kind of shattered my hopes in the future well-being of our democratic process. > Information is a tool. That's the thing, I didn't regard (not ultimately, at least) information as being a tool, I genuinely did think that the powers that be behind those mainstream media institution had the interest of the public in mind.