A great Charlie Brooker piece in the Guardian today:
It’s perhaps the biggest threat to the nation’s mental wellbeing, yet it’s freely available on every street – for pennies. The dealers claim it expands the mind and bolsters the intellect: users experience an initial rush of emotion (often euphoria or rage), followed by what they believe is a state of enhanced awareness. Tragically this “awareness” is a delusion. As they grow increasingly detached from reality, heavy users often exhibit impaired decision-making abilities, becoming paranoid, agitated and quick to anger. In extreme cases they’ve even been known to form mobs and attack people. Technically it’s called “a newspaper”, although it’s better known by one of its many “street names”, such as “The Currant Bun” or “The Mail” or “The Grauniad”…
Reminds me of a quote from journalism lectures, although I can’t remember who it was attributed to, that the role of the British press was to keep the population “in a permanent state of righteous indignation.”
The Earthbound Report 
The Media face a huge responsibility that they always envision to follow, but as time goes by, the original dream is forgotten and this vessel of knowledge is used to simply sway the opinions of people, not help form objective versions of the ‘truth’