While I agree with the op in theory. In practice the corporate media has not engendered much sympathy in recent years. Here's just one example...
2001 -2008
Karl Rove calls up reporter, says a bunch of lies. says he wants all quotes as "anonymous" or said reporter will never gets access to White House again.
reporter prints lies, credits anonymous sources.
Dick Cheney makes the rounds of the Sunday morning news shows. says same lies, and adds, "If you don't believe me, this was also reported in the Washington Post." then cites the lies Rove said to reporter.
rinse, repeat...
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=503460#p503460 being another example of being wary of the corporate press.
William Rivers Pitt sums up this latest kerfuffle...
An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:24 By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, rose up raging on Monday afternoon and threw a bag of live rats over the White House fence...
Dear Mr. Pruitt et al.:
Some of us in the so-called "alternative media" have been yelling and screaming for years about the government's legalized ability to plunder our right to privacy to little avail, while you big dogs in the "mainstream" news media haven't bothered to give a damn in all that time. Too taxing to report accurately and consistently on complicated issues, yeah?
It was Abraham Lincoln who said, "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." A shame; maybe if you'd been better at bringing the real facts to the people, the people would be better informed, and the elections/legislation that legalized the travails you currently endure could have been avoided.
It's funny to me that the Associated Press is nailing itself to a cross because you've been victimized by the same laws, politicians and tide of history you've either blissfully ignored or gleefully promoted for so many years.
Well, welcome to the future you helped to create. I have neither pity nor sorrow for you, but I am hopeful that your sudden inclusion in the ranks of the "Oh Shit, They Can Do That?" Club will inspire you to truthfully and factually inform the American people about what has been happening to their country right under their, and your, nose.
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Let's see what happens next.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16352-an-itty-bitty-pity-party-for-the-associated-press
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