Is the Press Getting Worse?

I've always likened blogging to a college dorm room....it's not a substitute for fair and accurrate news. But before blogging or in conjunction with blogging, news has started to slowly turn into an ideological and market-driven battlefield of opinions. People are listening to their "team," this election is a horse-race...have things always been like this? I know in the early days of America the press was super biased and partisan. They survived. I must admit, I enjoy reading opinions rather than simply facts.

OPEDs and Blogs and Fox News is more fun than CNN.