D´oh.
You really have to ask?
Follow the money.
The lame-stream media are doing what they do, which is hold on to their jobs. The managers are dependent on Federal dollars and Federal licenses. So the news readers had better not rock the boat.
The only independent journalists these days are on the Internet. These people still investigate. But not MSM. It is too dangerous.

Uhhhh, this has been a problem for how many years?? Step 1. Rate journalists written, print, and net. 2. Put simple rating along with a brief bio e.g. L9/10 scale (very liberal), and maybe a symbol, too (Lapdog or similar might be one) and the bio... 3. would be predominately school, training, member cpusa or former staffer of Clinton admin. etc. Sunlight and Clarity...most of all facts. Hiding behind a ´false impartiality´ and ´fake integrity´ has to become a thing of the past.

We have indeed seemingly reached a point where ´journalistic integrity´ is an oxymoron. NBC in particular (noted in story as largest news organization in the US), has jumped the shark badly - and in the Trayvon Martin case (cited in the story) - actually ventured into ´shape a legal case with lies´ territory, via *knowingly* doing dishonest editing.

What is far, far more worrisome however - is the fact that for decades now, the US public school systems have been producing ´graduates´ who are actually far too stupid to either view information objectively, or seek any ´sources´ of information out of their ´comfort zones´.

I recently was ´dis-invited´ to a dinner when the host´s wife started waxing poetic about an ´Al Sharpton report´ she´d viewed.

I told her if she was stupid enough to actually put Al Sharpton and ´reporting´ in the same sentence, I wasn´t sure I was comfortable eating a meal she´d read a cook book to prepare. Warped perceptions are exactly that - no matter how they ´taste´.

And US media has become masterful at warping perceptions. It´s what they do now.

Sad. Very sad.

The smell of dead and decaying flesh permeates the channels.

I guess it depends on whether you sit on the left or right side of the fense.

I would think before something dies it has to be alive. When was there any journalistic integrity? Maybe locally. I do know it was already missing on the national stage in the 1960s, can´t be sure before that but I doubt it was any different.

Rhetorical question, right?

Is the departing Pope Catholic?

Journalistic integrity? The beginnings of America´s left-wing state-controlled media´s long "death march" towards total irrelevance began on that fateful day of February 27, 1968, when CBS´s late Uncle Walter Crankshaft falsely announced to the world that America and our Allies´ efforts to rid Southeast Asia of it´s communist menace were "mired in stalemate."...It´s been a downhill trip for the newsroom jackals ever since!

YES, and once gone, who would ever trust them again.

We passed skewered long ago. The stories are flagrant, insulting, in your face, lies.

DUH!!! The answer is yes. Has been for decades. Were you asleep all these years?

"Journalistic integrity?´ Wow, talk about a contradiction in terms.

Media is either leading or following many segments of our society. Integrety is indeed on it´s last legs. No revival can be expected.

Historically, most "Newspapers" were founded by someone with a strong point of view. The window-dressing of impartiality has often been invoked without merit. Rather than curse the darkness, we had better get more media outlets going. The Blaze is not a bad start. Fox want´s to sell stuff to both sides....hey, it´s a business. The Left Media knows they are losing the ratings wars.

BTW- - - - Why can´t a community of like minded writers (like L-dotters), who write great political stuff all day, without pay, anyway, create an on-line newspaper ?

Not for profit but for ´influence´.

Why not dozens of them ?

We must win the hearts and minds first.

And then elections.

Been dead for a decade and a half.
All we´ve got now are a bunch of infectious zombies contaminating the mind of the low-info sheepulation.

It´s bad when you spew out garbage that lacks integrity, and your viewers knows that you journalist are in the back pocket of Obama....how much is he paying you for his dribble?