There are now six full time PR (public relations) people for every single reporter.
Given that most reporters are hacks who write about nothing, the ratio of professional liars to real reporters is probably more like 100 to 1 - and that's who creates the news.
An update from a YouTube poster:
"PR people are everywhere on the web too in the form of sockpuppet accounts posing as unbiased internet users. Reddit is full of them, as are Facebook & Youtube comments. These shills are paid to sway public opinion on everything from nuclear energy to GMO's to presidential elections & "'corn sugar" (HFCS). And no one even questions it. Pathetic."
