So the corporate news media has

[kacekwl]

decided that instead of pushing back and actually doing their job they will be satisfied being called fake news and any questions they ask go unanswered. I guess they will just write a book and try to get some justification for their existence.

[BoRaGard]

1. There's already a book

On Bended Knee.

Most of corp media has failed and is failing America.

No integrity. No honor.

[justaprogressive]

2. Hard to hold onto your integrity

when someone has a figurative gun to your head.

[Boomerproud]

7. Best book about the Reagan era IMWO.

nt

[IbogaProject]

11. On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency

https://www.academia.edu/2773188/On_Bended_Knee_The_Press_and_the_Reagan_Presidency

Took a minute to find as there are other books with similar titles, and it needed the full title to locate easily.

[jalan48]

3. The corporate news exists to serve our corporate state.

Most of our politicians work for the corporate state as well.

[wolfie001]

4. Sounds like a perfect summation of Jake "The Snake" Tapper's career.

[calimary]

12. "Jake the Snake"! OMG!!!

I absolutely LOVE this, wolfie001!

And it sure fits!

[BoRaGard]

13. #JakeSnake now going viral

[calimary]

14. GOOD!!!

He could put it on his presidential kneepads.

[wolfie001]

15. Some old wrassler's nom de plume

Cheers!

[Ray Bruns]

5. "I guess they will just write a book and try to get some justification for their existence"

Well duh!

[nowforever]

6. Accumulating money is their God

Greed is never satisfied and telling the truth is not profitable

[hay rick]

8. They can always blame Biden.

[Paladin]

10. And they will. Endlessly. (nt)

[Ol Janx Spirit]

9. What is the way out? Endlessly complaining about it is not working so far...

Yes, corporations are always going to side with whomever butters their bread, and the corporate media are no different. Years of the right demonizing the profession of journalism and the fact that in any business money must be made has hollowed out the fourth estate. But journalism is so essential to a free society that it is the only profession named and protected in the Constitution.

There are some people--like Ben, Brett, and Jordan Meiselas--doing good work out there; and there are clearly many others--like Scott Pelley--working from the inside as best they can. But we need a clearer strategy.

Some of us need to become billionaires--or at least raise our kids to be--and buy media conglomerates. We should also look to venture capital and co-ops as a way to create real news networks that serve the public and not the dollar. Many more of us need to be writing and speaking in a way that reaches a larger audience.

But we would have to understand going into it: real journalism is going to both uplift and offend us. The unwillingness of both sides to stomach criticism of their own is at least in part responsible for where we are now.

The loss of the fourth estate has not happened overnight. It is the result of a many-years-long campaign. And it will take a another many-years-long campaign to return it to where it is not a propaganda tool for either side.