The following paper examines how the news
media has been changed from a brave, controversy-seeking faction to a community
of self-censoring, congress-fearing puppets of whom the politically powerful are the puppeteers. The writer argues that the
media is not the same establishment that once looked for the extra, but it is merely a reserved, timid
society, a society that has ignored its once unquenchable thirst for the truth in order to satisfy its hunger for the more material things, money and power.