But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.