realthog

To be absolutely honest, we never really did. We still have a news media organization run by and for the people who moved into journalism so they could get even for bullying in high school. What's changed is that you have a whole system produced by downsizing where everybody in a news organization is terrified of losing their jobs at any given time, and covering an embarrassing story is a good way to get cut in "regretful but necessary layoffs". (The reporters may want to go for those stories, but you're looking at a system where either the editors are violently reactionary or they're cowardly beyond words. You know why you never call a newspaper editor "weaselly"? It's an insult: weasels have a spine.)