Most if not all western media outlets have become little more than propaganda machines. There was a piece written about it recently by a Pentagon reporter, who basically tried to couch the fact that they hero-worship government and especially military officials in pseudo-intellectual excuses.

I'll try to find the link for you.

edit: Not the one I was thinking of but still à propos: http://www.alternet.org/glenn-greenwald-why-do-mainstream-jo...