"More broadly, we in the mainstream media are out of touch with working-class America; we spend too much time chatting up senators, and not enough visiting unemployed steel workers." True that.

I've read that six major corporations now control 90 percent of the mainstream news media. They supply much of the content that goes into the RG. They ignored Bernie Sanders until he started winning primaries, then published article after article critical of him. Because he was a threat to their corporate interests. Much of what we get from them, including the RG, is propaganda, a mixture of truth and lies, especially on US foreign policy and our endless wars. There is very little in the RG from a leftist  or working-class perspective. It panders to the rich and middle class.

So I turn to websites like Common Dreams -- http://www.commondreams.org/ -- for some reality.