As someone who has studied media on an academic level (two degrees -- journalism and mass communication) and worked in the media industry for nearly two decades, I can tell you the state of journalism is in complete disarray. In nearly all cases, watching television news is no more valuable in providing a person with quality information than watching reality television. Most newspapers are better off used as fish wrap or a birdcage liner. Those who still attempt to practice real journalism are drowned out by corporate media or eventually cast off as pariahs. There are still journalists who stil believe in the trade and produce quality content, but they are becoming so much harder to find.

May I probe your mind and ask which journalists you believe are producing quality content, and also what (if any) websites exist that provide quality news with a clear value to it? There's a couple of reasons for this, one is that I'm becoming increasingly interested in news and journalism due to a resurgence in a news program at the college radio station I work at, the other is because of the today's political landscape.