Maybe there is an awakening. Journalism, a profession vital to freedom, has been under attack for the last few decades but not for the reasons offered by the pretenders who claim to practice it.
Since the Clinton years it has become apparent that big media players don't follow truth to wherever it leads but rather take the path of least resistance to praise from their masters, security and government jobs. They have bent over backwards to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013