JUST AS WAS TRUE when the Mueller investigation closed without a single American being charged with criminally conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, Wednesday’s issuance of the long-waited report from the Department of Justice’s Inspector General reveals that years of major claims and narratives from the U.S. media were utter frauds.

Every time you read something from AFP and Reuters (and CNN and the Washington Post), you should be thinking not “This is fake news” but: “What’s the agenda?” To paraphrase Chuck Schumer’s infamous, and instructive, comment on the CIA, news outlets have six ways from Sunday of getting you to think what they want you to think, none of which involve making up stuff.

The final sentence of the letter is the true death nail for ABC with McCarthy and others writing “it is imperative that the public be assured newsroom decisions regarding exposing human trafficking are not tampered by financial interest or outside forces.” This is, of course, the entire problem with massive corporate consolidation and control over the U.S. media. Their purpose is no longer to expose the powerful but instead to defend, cover for, and propagandize on their behalf.

All of this gets to a larger point, which is that journalism would be better off if major media organizations and journalists simply admitted they have biases and embraced viewpoint-specific news coverage. After all, the notion that journalism should be unbiased or “fair and balanced” is of relatively recent vintage.