Give Me Taxpayer Money: The Article.

Also this is a reminder that the most prestigious award in journalism worldwide, the Pulitzer Prize, is named after a happy merchant newspaper owner who invented yellow journalism, and openly used his paper to slander anyone he disliked.

A lot of people think that the current state of journalism, the incredible bald-faced lies and hypocrisy, is a deviation, that it's "not real journalism". That's false. It was always like that, it was always this shit. The only difference is that back in the Duranty or Cronkite times, newspapers and then cable TV was most people's sole source of news, and even if people familiar with whatever was being reported realized it was horseshit, they had no easy way to tell others. The internet changed that, and that's why they're so desperately trying to turn it into a corporate- and government-controlled walled garden.