Why should they help media companies?
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.