The U.S. news media was never "liberal.” At most, you could say there were periods in the not-too-distant past when the major newspapers did a better job of getting the facts straight. There also was an "underground” press which published some scoops that the mainstream media avoided.

(Image: Still from the film, "Citizen Kane")So, reporters revealed the evils of racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s; war correspondents exposed some of the cruel violence of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s; ma ... Read more »