America's for-profit media corporations catastrophically failed us

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12. CNN failed

Below is from an opinion piece by James Wolcott, about the election coverage, in a recent Vanity Fair article titled aptly “Media Circus Maximus”:

“No cable-news organization disgraced it self more comprehensively than CNN. No one expects better from Fox News, but CNN used to stand for something—professional standards, stuff like that……it was slumming on the job. The President of CNN, Jeff Zucker was instrumental in the rise of Donald Trump as a media brand…[and] Under Zucker’s tenure any remnant of integrity and impartiality CNN once prided itself on is now scrap metal. CNN hired Corey Lewandowski, recall, after he was fired as Trump’s campaign manager and Lewandowski preceded to make no pretense of offering independent commentary on countless useless political panels—he functioned as an in-house hammerhead shark for the Trump campaign.

This was happening even as Lewandowski was drawing “large severance” checks from the Trump campaign, advising Trump on strategy and prepping him for debates….. flying on the Trump plane while working for the network.”

Like all of the MSM, CNN was utterly complicit. They'll doing better now because of Trumps treatment of them---but that can turn on a dime and they'll be colluding again if it serves their profit motive.