I grew up with a great affection for what is now dismissed as "muck-raking" newspapers. Recognizing the inherently dishonest and criminal nature of all of politics, I admired the journalists who preferred exposing the muck of the system to the moderns with their unexamined defense of establishment agendas. Today, however, so much of the muck of politics is inextricably bound up with the interests of the corporate order that own the message machines.
I seldom watch the news anymore. The inane blathering about the newest scandal or who's cleric said what last year - I prefer sports or an old movie on TCM.
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