Well yes , there is bad and there is good media . And yes , objectively reporting is what they should do . If you mean be selling out that they provide biased news because people want to see it then I would even agree with you that some news outlets do and it ' s appalling . But it ' s not something that is very characteristic of the western media . I would argue that we still have it better than most other countries . If you want to nitpick then yes , corporations are entities . But entities do not have a conscience and thus cannot have an agenda . If there is one , then it ' s the people behind the entities . Anonymizing and dehumanizing people you don ' t agree with is a very slippery slope aka it ' s the government ' s fault .