Remember when journalism used to be about reporting the truth?

Remember when reporters used to tweak the nose of the system by uncovering its flaws so they could be fixed, instead of being controlled by the system?

Rather than having everything filtered by what will eek out a few more ratings points for their multinational corporate owners, wouldn't it be nice to more of that again?

Instead of the sensationalism and sound bites devoid of any critical thinking, wouldn't it be nice to see an attempt to return to fact finding and actual reporting in news?

I find it sad that some of the best reporting on US events comes from outside the US entirely. And the rest generally comes from underfunded under appreciated public radio.

The web's already a better source than TV, because at least you can get a wide variety of reporting and do a decent amount of fact checking on your own. At the rate things are going, newspapers will be eclipsed next.

But there used to be a time when you felt like the news media was on your side. Now they're just feeding you whatever fearsell line that will get you to keep watching or reading. Not that anyone reads anymore.

We'll see no better example of this tomorrow, when the spin and guessing machine goes into full effect over something that can't be changed, serves no purpose to be guessed about, and frankly at this point is a waste of coverage until a winner is official.

Instead we'll have all the important issues still going on reduced to side stories so the theatrics of the day can take center stage. An exponentially larger amount of mental energy will be spent guessing over the next 24 hours than has been spent on explaining the issues to voters in the past 24 days, and probably longer.

I'll take those days of actually trying to cover real issues, and present the truth of the matter any old day over what passes for journalism nowdays.