It is somewhat alarming to see this hostile and dehumanizing language (referring to "all media" as "infected") and makes me automatically skeptical of your point-of-view.

I suspect we have some "deep staters" in attendance. Everything you know, you don't. Everything you believe is false. A liberal conspiracy exists and it's hiding in plain sight.

If you ignore these "throw the baby out with the bathwater" comments, some good discussion is being had.

...and it's the others who believe in conspiracy theories? The "deep staters" you call them?

I didn't invent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_State...

I discovered it on July 4 when people I passingly know on FB took a pledge to QAnon. Looking up QAnon brought me to the Deep State conspiracy belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

One characteristic of it is a deep distrust of "the media".

This is a well phrased variant of: "since they're critical, they must be wrong".

You can be critical without being dehumanizing.

Is 'infected' really dehumanizing? Groups of humans can be infected with a disease, ideology, etc. I didn't mean to sound dehumanizing I'm just frustrated by the lack of reliable information about the world we live in.

I think the point is that the media has been over run with a virus of the mind, and EVEN the NYT has become infected

That's exactly what I was trying to articulate. Thanks for saying it more eloquently.

Not surprising considering the extreme consolidation of mass media corporations over the past 50 years.

I'm not sure about "all media", but CNN is definite worse, and WaPo is on par with NYT in pushing their narratives.