The reporters, the editors, and the suits in the executive suites have forfeited my trust by their disgraceful behavior this last election cycle. They have betrayed the interests of the American people by their arrogance, their indolence, and their failure to treat the Trump campaign as something more than a tool for higher ratings. All too many of them deserve to be held in the same contempt as the liars and toadies that worked for Milosevic in Serbia and Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

We'll see how the press handles their poor coverage in the past. If they consistently report the news fairly and accurately report Trump's failings and misbehavior, I'll reconsider in a couple of years.

It's up to them, as far as I'm concerned.

Believe that whatever they tell you is incomplete, at least some of what they're telling you is false, and let them WORK to convince you that what they're saying might really be true, instead of taking their reportage in good faith

Faith requires trust, and in the case of the US lame-stream corporate media, it'll have to be EARNED anew. Right now, I don't trust them.

They can never make up for giving Trump 2 Billion dollars worth of free airtime.

They can never make up for allowing Trump to lie over and over.

They can never make up for not covering the violence at his rallies.

They can never make up for showing an empty podium over and over.

They can never make up for ignoring Bernie.

They can never make up for discussing Hillary's e-mails nonstop.

If this had been a singular lapse by a single entity, maybe.

However, it has been a long term concerted effort across the whole spectrum of outlets for the past at least 20 years. (SEE: The Iraq War, as one of many examples.)

To achieve a real turn around we'd need to see a whole lot of new faces... Some faces, like for instance, Amy Goodman, who have been marginalized, smeared, and ostracized from the main stream.

Even the least biased outlets succumbed.

Which shows they are more about misguided attempts to boost their $$$ than any obligation to truth, reality, or ethics.

It should be a lesson in who really controls the message and it's not the journalists. (If there are really any of those left in the so-called MSM.)

much more will be done by the Repubs in Congress and Trump. It remains to be seen if we can turn the political tide in '18, and media assistance in the form of honesty and truth would certainly help there, and would intensify the RW whining about media bias.

I at least sense a little bit of a turn on a couple of the networks. The coverage of the women's marches was a positive. But it's gonna take a lot to make up for '16. This all started when the networks turned the news desks into profit centers. So far, there has been far too much truthiness in media and not enough truth.