Journalists who want to report the facts are fighting a two-front war - against companies that know feeding people what they want to hear makes for a bigger bottom line and against consumers who insist that anything they disagree with isn't a fact at all. We have nothing more, or less, than the mass media our culture demands.
There are millions of channels out there... so that anyone looking for a "news source" that agrees with what they already "know" can find what they're looking for. But even the good ones have no real vetting, fact checking, editing or accountability, no one to tell them that their source is not credible or the study they're talking about has been discredited. YouTube is, IMO, the worst of what's become of cable news as a whole - just one person or a like-minded group of people, sharing their take on the information that catches their attention with little interest in balance or context or depth.
Yep. It is the one issue that transcends politics - dumping ever more money into defense and dreaming up ways to put all that spending to use. No one even talks about peace or demilitarization or even responsible defense spending. It is just more-more-more, bigger-bigger-bigger, and only the boogeyman we're building up to guard against changes.