When I read, "The less free press in a region, the fewer dedicated reporters, the more ignorant their residents became." and then that you quit your journalism major, I thought< "NOOOO! You just gave the best reaon not to quit. In the end I was glad you didn't quit journalism altogether.

As a retired very bored man, I have sat on the couch a lot watching national News (never Fox) over and over and over. I have come to the same conclusion calling it Infotainment (and they are all now selling merch!).

I stopped watching Joe and Mika, because Joe loved to hear himself talk and bullied Mika to the sidelines, interrupting her and talking over her. Yet I find Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Nicole Wallace, Lawrence O'Donnell et al not shrinking violets at all, certainly not afraid to confront and speak truth to power.

I think too many times on any subject, we tend to condemn everybody by putting them all into one basket - like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I grew up with the likes of Walter Cronkite,Peter Jennings, and the Huntley/Brinkley Report. So I have an idea what good journalism looks like... and sometimes the vitriol in the "free press" can be just as counterproductive - even useless - I think because great anger leads to great blindness.