This article (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-americans-hate-the-media/305060/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why

This article (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-americans-hate-the-media/305060/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-ame...) is basically canonical for things wrong with the media and it was written in 96.