The Media

What happened to journalism in America? I'm a news junkie and maybe I'm wrong but I think it gets harder every day to find reporters reporting facts. What makes it worse is that all the major TV media outlets are guilty of this. Why are opinion poles and biased pundits replacing reporters stating the facts?

Here's is the definition of pundit from Merriam-Webster, a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media. That's my problem with every news outlet interviewing these people, they are just giving opinions not facts.
Whats worse is that there is no criteria for being a pundit, any biased blowhard can get on the news and make up stuff.

My prime example that led me to this post was Fox news the other day. They were letting everyone know about a hate crimes bill that's in the House right now. Did they give an accurate summary of the bill and report where party lines were going to vote on it? No of course not, they made up stories about how transvestites with stump fetishes will be able to rape veterans and anyone trying to stop them would go to be guilty of a hate crime! I double checked and that pundit was totally wrong and just spreading nonsense.

They never even bothered to sum up actual wording of the bill they were talking about. This is why I listen to the BBC instead of U.S. news most of the time.