No Brett, the blame should fall squarely on the shoulder of the "career" journalists and their editor who publish the lies from "anonymous officials".

I am curious how you quantify 99% of journalism being accurate and fair?

American media is a  joke. Contemporary journalists are content to publish what corporate and government interests want them to publish, while giving lip service to the public.

One case in point is Edward Snowden. How many Hawaii media outlets followed up with an expose about how local residents are/were affected by the massive surveillance network in our very own backyard?  If I remember correctly, one of Civil Beat's only articles on it decided that Snowden's girlfriend being an exotic dancer was more newsworthy.

Fast forward a couple years to today, and not a single "journalist" will even mention the WikiLeaks emails that exposed Clinton's corruption, but will gladly link to fake Russian conspiracy theories, just as Mr. Kaahui pointed out on CB's homepage.