if you look at the degredation of professionalism in the media over the past 20-25 years (on both sides of the aisle), it is pretty depressing. They have brought on their own problems. I think it's comical how many of them have become something of a caricature, almost as if they are picketing with a sign that says, "Hey, don't forget that we're the Fourth Estate!"

Yet 20-25 years ago, it was accepted (or at least seemed) that the press was a reasonably honest broker, and was generally just accepted as the Fourth Estate. Now, most just seem to be shills for one side or the other, or one cause or another.

A perfect example is Trump and Acosta at CNN. Is Trump being a clown with how he deals with Acosta? Sure. However, a credible journalist would treat it like water of a duck's back, and at most allow his outlet to deal with it. Instead, Acosta rolls around in the mud with the Donald; and in the end Trump is still the same Trump, yet Acosta now just looks like an anti-Trump hack who could never be considered an honest broker.

It also doesn't help that so many journalists peddle their wares as if they are experts in certain subject matters when they are so far from it. It just makes them seem so stupid when their ignorance inevitably comes out.