eclimial, you are deluded. You wax nostalgically of the days of "Clark Kent and the Daily Planet" - that was a fiction.

There is no "free" press in the US, or most of Europe for that matter. The US news media is controlled by some 5 Corporate Conglomerates. These corporations don't give a shit about journalistic integrity, they don't work for the public, they work for their advertisers and stock holders. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp), he is one of yours, yes? Wall Street Journal, Fox News, 21st Century Fox, BskyB....over 800 media corporations in 50 countries. He's your "free press" along with a small cadre of other Media Oligarchs like him. These people decide what your political opinion 'should be', what is news worthy, what is not, who is in and who is to be crucified on the alter of the 'public interest'.

Seriously.....

The first amendment is dead, trampled, the dead horse kicked and boiled down for glue long ago.

And no, I am not a fan of Trump, his administration, or of Hillary Clinton, or of any Congressional leaders - these people are all sociopathic egomaniacs, imho.