How the Washington Press Turned Bad, by Robert Parry

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/28/how-the-washington-press-turned-bad/

The Washington Post’s Watergate team, including from left to right, publisher Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Howard Simons, and executive editor Ben Bradlee.

There was a time when the Washington press corps prided itself on holding the powerful accountable – Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Vietnam War – but those days are long gone, replaced by a malleable media that puts its cozy relations with insiders ahead of the public interest, writes Robert Parry.


http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/31/big-media-has-betrayed-the-people/

Big Media Has Betrayed the People
October 31, 2014


For years, Americans relied on the mainstream U.S. news media for information; some folks were even convinced the MSM was “liberal.” But the current reality is that the major papers have become mouthpieces for the national security state while amassing a sorry record of deception, writes Greg Maybury.