"fully embrace it as an ideology"

You nailed it! Journalism has become a service industry for the status-quo/corporate/government viewpoint. Commercial interests dictate journalistic content, has filtered out potent criticism, instead focusing on spurious diversions, manipulated public opinion, and has divided the national reading public through multiculturalism, political correctness, and the government ideology of fear and undiscriminating allegiance promulgated by think tank hacks. 

For proof - I offer the fine mess this country is in.

Your polly-annish enthusiasm ignores the reality of the present state of commercial journalism. I do share your enthusiasm if applied to alternative media of the internet. That is where the hope of unbiased journalism abides. It's a venue where the search for truth can be pursued, instead of obedience to monopolistic commercial interests. 

Thank you for bringing up the subject, Brett.