I think that things started changing as technology got better or actually worse. When there became many multiple channels that had to be filled 24/7 with anything than anyone could put out there and try to make people react to actually hurt the news media and especially when big money could use the news to their advantage. When anybody with an Ipod or computer can sit in his living room and incite thousands of people that have too much time on their hands and no knowledge of a subject then there goes the honest news. When there was just radio and a couple of TV channels and a non partial newspaper then news was news. I remember when Oregon had the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian and the Journal closed it's doors and the Oregonian was left leaning consequently like ADN, Oregon started sliding to the left and it's been that way every since. Honest news, researched news to be sure is very valuable but with all of the garbage out there the sources are hard to verify anymore.