Consolidation of the ownership of the "independent"[sic] press into the hands of a very few megacorporations plus the wholesale switch from real news to "entertainment" & "infomercials, neatly blurring the line between fact & fiction. Hey, its all about selling corn flakes and dish soap anyway- not providing a public service- when it isn't about disseminating corporatist propaganda and disinformation.

The only things approximating real news programs any longer are on the BBC the CBC/Radio Canada International & public television & radio.

Throw in the incredible imbecility of the U.S. population that can actually believe, for example, that Fox "News"[sic] is "fair and balanced" & Bob's your uncle. Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite would be derided as "liberal crybabies" today, and the boobocracy would buy the smear.

"And that's the way it is. Good night, and good luck."