What would Thomas Jefferson think of our press today?

"The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

What has become of investigative journalism? We seem besieged by infotainers masquerading as journalists and political pundits.

We need a serious number of news junkies like me to sift through the thousands of stories posted via the internet every day and elect a few as worthy of the term journalism. Anybody with me?