News media blunders over the past several weeks dishearten even the most ardent defenders of journalism.
Actually, the grossly obvious blatant MSM falsehoods have been going on for nearly three years. One need only compare the MSM's outrage claims about what the MSM claimed Trump said to what Trump actually said to see this. I did that in late 2015; equally important,
NO MSM outlet called out MSM deceit regarding Trump. Whether herd instinct, tribalism, or conspiracy,
ALL MSM outlets were part of this deceit.
That said, the MSM's self-inflicted wounds of partisan bias go back decades, into the 1970s. Until MSM give up their, "We want to change the world," vision of their profession that underlies their partisan lies and selectivity, they cannot stanch their "blood flow" of readers, listeners, and viewers.