Mainstream US, UK, French, Australian or what?
Generally, when I look around, I'm impressed by the diversity of the mainstream media. In the UK you have the BBC which, though many knee-jerk rightwingers would argue otherwise, is a model of dispassionate, objective reporting, and the broadsheets, which offer a depth of coverage - particularly foreign - that puts most US papers to shame. The Telegraph may be a 'Tory' paper, but its op-ed pages are distinctly anti-Cameron, while the Guardian may be a peacenik leftie rag, but the squaddies posting on the Army Rumour Service consistently rate the paper's Audrey Gillan as the most Army-friendly reporter on Fleet Street and Max Hastings has a weekly slot on the op-ed pages.
And, before anyone counters, there is the Daily Express, but that hasn't been a real newspaper since it was bought by a sleazy pornographer. And the other tabloids? Yes, they have agendas, but it would be a dim person indeed who looked to them for a general world view. And even in that blinkered world view can lie some important truths. Much though it galls me to mention, it was the Daily Mail that first named the killers of Stephen Lawrence.
But, sure, 'the meejah' is an easy target. No-one's going to shout you down if you blame society's ills on the journalists. It's an easy and cheap point - blame the media and win a teddy-bear. Just remember, though, who it was that uncovered the corruption and turpitude of Aitken, Archer, Levy and their ilk.