Many people no longer believe the polls or the fact-checking columns trumpeted by news organizations. Conservatives have complained for decades about media bias, but many liberals now join in the indictment.

I don’t like either party. I believe even the best politicians can be self-serving hypocrites.

There are some Trump detractors who feel like it’s the media’s job to stop Trump.

It’s a brave new world.

It's a brave new world.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.

In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.

How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.

There are some Trump detractors who feel like it's the media's job to stop Trump.