“No matter how much you hate the corporate media, it’s not enough. It is literally impossible to overstate not only the damage that they do but the malice with which they do it. And by malice, I don’t mean that they’re evil masterminds. I mean malice in the sense of the “banality of evil.” The people who go and punch the clock every day, never question what they’re doing, but whose work is nonetheless incredibly toxic and harmful. They’re just basically sociopathic careerists. But no matter sometimes those people can be the most destructive. “ — Glenn Greenwald
Donahue got cancelled because he opposed the Iraq war, along with the Dixie Chicks. That's when it really got bad I think, made other journalists think twice before they published reports imo. Now it seems advertisers and sponsors run the shit show, able to influence editorial decisions massively. Not to mention fascist government agencies seeking to control domestic populations through media..