No-one can doubt that there's a big problem with politicians lying through their teeth and not being brought to account by the media. Part of the problem is that the political journalist relies on access to politicians; lose that access and you could be out of a job. Politicians have learned to guard that access and only give it to journalists who play their game. It also leads to accusations of journalists being politically biased, which is not to be confused with newspapers, which are definitely politically biased toward the financial interests of their millionaire owners, such as those below.
Another problem is the spread of misinformation, which again is abetted by journalists, the 24 hour news culture and the rush to be first with a story. Time was when a story had to be triple checked from three different sources before it was put out, but now there's no checking, which results in misinformation being promulgated at an alarming rate and stories increasingly having to be retracted.
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