The problem is that journalism, as a bias-controlled profession, is only just one hundred years old. The National Press Club, founded in 1908, is seen as the b

The problem is that journalism, as a bias-controlled profession, is only just one hundred years old. The National Press Club, founded in 1908, is seen as the beginning of professionalism in journalism. They were built upon promulgating a set of ethics and standards for journalism, including a focus on the facts, accuracy, and bias-control. Before that there was very little focus on what we consider bias-control. In the early years of the United States up through the 1890s, newspapers were most often owned by political parties and were explicitly for slinging innuendo, suggestion, rumor, and scandal at the political opponents of that party. So if you think it's a new problem or that it's bad now, history has shown that it has been worse.