When is the Fourth Estate going to STOP following EXTREME idiots?

One of the first lessons that I learned as a high school debater was
the importance of quoting a reliable resource with proper references
to validate the information and properly credit it's author. In the
past decades we have seen the rise of Fox News, a channel owned by
News Corp, the company owned by Rupert Murdoch a former Australia famous for his tabloids like The Globe and New York Post.

A viewer to this network now views a "Brave NEW World" of news
commentators who have taken the place of the reliable journalists.
A setting where their comments are annotated with "Some people say" without
a word of WHO these people are or if they are really the voice of authority
that the "commentator" appears to intimate with their smug pronouncements.
I catch myself scoffing and basically denouncing anything that they say as insignificant. I only wish that the other more reliable sources like CNN would do the same.

We recently saw people including the NAACP pile on Shirley Sherrod
when Fox chose to treat her as a racist based on a censored tape
from a well known charlatan. The rest of the media followed like
puppies behind their mothers! This week as the extreme right has
turned the building of a community center and mosque in a long
vacant building by a moderate Muslim cleric has been allowed to
descend into a macabre follow the leader once again to the bottom
of the stack of humanity. This man is a GOOD GUY! COME ON! But
we have people who are viewed as being better than Fox once again
playing follow the leader. Americans deserve better. The main stream
gets a resounding F on this one too. No imagination and they are
using forged slanted Cliff's Notes. Not performance we prefer to see.