Jeff Bezos is reorganizing the Washington Post. The New York Times is a pale shadow of its former self. CNN pays known liars and reporters call them “colleagues.” Most news organizations are in a crisis of conscience amid economic ruin.

I take no joy in saying this. The media sucks.

Not “mainstream” media. All media; corporate media, social media, local media, national media, state media, non-profit, for-profit and the tattletale kid down the street.

The biggest problem we have is that we put profit ahead of content, we have no idea what we’re doing and we shout at the top of our lungs while doing it. We try to predict the future, don’t understand the present and misinterpret the past. Sometimes at press conferences, we sound like bleating sheep. Other times we sound, even as we report on everything from natural disasters to policymaking as if we’re calling a horse race.

The guardrails have been removed and thus we have two major political parties that fail to represent the majority of citizens. One political party consists of criminals, seditionists, rapists, con artists, liars, misogynists andauthoritarians while the other party consists of weak-kneed do-gooders restrained by woke culture and too afraid to call it all out for what it is. The media, meanwhile, plays along.

Many ask, where is our Walter Cronkite or our Edward R. Murrow? The answer is there are none and there won’t be any in the foreseeable future because of the disintegration of the Fourth Estate.

We treat the convicted felon Donald Trump as if he’s a normal presidential candidate. He is not. We treat this election year as if it is normal. It is not. We have no idea how to present and report the news. And if someone calls this into question, they are often shunned. I hope that doesn’t happen to George Conway.

This week Conway appeared with Republican shill Scott Jennings on CNN. Jennings is a CNN paid contributor from Louisville who has a great deal of experience spewing out convicted felon Trump’s talking points. Conway called him out for lying and questioned why CNN was paying Jennings.

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That’s actually a very good question, and I would love to know why a network would pay Jennings any amount of money considering the lack of factual cohesion with most of what he says. But........

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