"you probably just aren't used to seeing media do what they are supposed to do--facilitate democracy." No-one in the last few decades has seen this. Most media

"you probably just aren't used to seeing media do what they are supposed to do--facilitate democracy." No-one in the last few decades has seen this. Most media is is actually part of the government structure now, and has very little impact on facilitating "democracy". If this were the case, various media outlets would agree with each other (as the voice of the common opinion) as opposed to the current state of affairs, where a media channel controlled by one organization will be at war with a conflicting channel of "news". I think that looking to the media to "facilitate democracy" is naive at best, disingenuous at worst.