I don't know about that, in my eyes the big error is placing journalists on a pedestal. Used to be they were seen as absolute filth, writing penny dreadfuls and junk for sloppy magazines, but these days it's one of the few Hallowed positions.

That and it seems like all journalists are "taught" that they have to be "objective" but they aren't taught that it is impossible to actually be objective. And so they just kiss the feet of every western authority figure.

The press is in large part victim to being full of young starry-eyed idiots who think they know what's going on; middle aged jaded assholes who they know what's really going on; and old ghouls who knows where their bread is buttered.

In the current capitalist system I would want an actual free press - free from the censorship of government and capital. In a communist utopia I would want a free press, I think. In AES states I think it's very good they don't have a free press - noone does, but you know what I mean.