[@Cynder] The Achilles' Heel of modern and past news coverage is the push towards ratings and cash flow. Because of that particular trend, we've entered into the full-blown force of a media era where roundtable discussion is considered journalism. It's not. It's opinion spouting based on a rather gray area centered on what is fact and what is not. What is alternative fact, what is fact, what is false? It's dangerous to me that any form of media would want to silence others behind the battlecry of 'fake news' because it's not an attempt at justice but rather a thinly hidden agenda toward censorship. My first journalism class talked about not using adjectives in an article because it presents a bias.

It's amazing how far the current news reporting has fallen from that particular concept. If I want opinions, I'll read a blog or watch a vlog, or listen to podcasts and the like. And it's all well and good if newscasters make it clear that what they're saying is their personal perspective. But it's transparent that the media wants to establish their words as gospel. If you're a journalist, I want the news as it happened, not your distortion of it.

EDIT: There's also the possibility of more sinister handling as to why the news is as it is. Thy name is propaganda.