“... good people doing good things. But let me tell you, you'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good. All you get is controversy, crap and confusion.”

A short but good start on a list of what amerika's MSM is and is not.

Bad news sells.  Government requires conflict to justify their existence — no conflict, no need for them.  As peace is acquired, more 'trouble' is needed to keep the government in business — make more laws prohibiting what people already do and issue permits to do the same thing.  Thus the victim class to be used as a bludgeon against the free and responsible, to vote away the power and property of their neighbors, in the process enriching the political class at the expense of the common man/woman.