Their revenues are declining, their staffing levels cut to the bone and they have turned into comics, relying on attention grabbing headlines to try and attract readership.
No longer does journalistic integrity exist(if ever it did).
They are all beholden to tools of government and fed a menu designed to cowe , manipulate and meld the population into becoming docile little sheeple, frightened to step outside the mainstream.
   Ramblings on farcebook and twitter ricochet around the world gathering huge audiences before anyone has the intelligence to query the veracity of the message.
   In this brave new world everything presented by the mainstream media has to have the requisite level of massage and spin applied prior to release.