We can always ask ourselves: What is more important for our society: independent media or our search overlords?
However the last action I can remember that fulfilled checks and counterbalances was the publication of the Snowden files. After that the press died and it’s never recovered.
Journalists are too scared and media companies neutered, and no longer have what it takes to call out the executive.
We've implicitly relied on the "courtesy" of the executive to just sit there and take it for the good of the country and public discussion. But now that time seems to have passed. No more high road and turning the other cheek.
I feel like all the new I ever see is calling out Trump. I don't think it's doing anything though.
Is that really surprising? Good journalists consider it their job to hold politicians accountable.
But yes.. this only works so long as the amount of politicans with a moral compass are a majority... the moment this changes is the moment that the media is the enemy.
Well it's a good thing for politicians they haven't had to deal with that for a long, long time.