Yes. The Fourth Estate is a prerequisite for a democracy. However, what we have is a Politics Industrial Complex and the vast majority of the media is on the i

Yes. The Fourth Estate is a prerequisite for a democracy. However, what we have is a Politics Industrial Complex and the vast majority of the media is on the inside; as discussed during this episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/im-your-biggest-fan/ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/im-your-biggest-fan/ You can't do true by-definition journalism from that position. Speaking of the definition of journalism, using this filter most of what gets passed off as journalism, isn't. https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1 https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1 The most important skill in today's "journalism" is reading off a teleprompter and/or parroting an established narrative. That is what's rewarded. That is we get what someone else pays them for, and too often it's not actual journalism.