Why do bad people criticize the media?

Well comrade, the job of the media is to shape and change public opinion to what it should be. Those that criticize the media think that the media should be in it's purest form, "report the facts and let you decide."

90% of the American media is controlled by only 6 corporations. Care to guess who those corporations back politically? Let's look at one example. In 2008, General Electric controlled all of the media outlets listed below. They backed Obama for president. After taking office, Obama and the Democrats passed a string of green energy subsidies that allowed General Electric to avoid paying income tax in 2010, and the CEO of General Electric was put in charge of Obama's committee on Job Creation (where he immediately outsourced over 25,000 jobs to China).

We have a free press, but the "mainstream" media is largely a monopoly, and it is almost exclusively the propaganda wing of the Democratic party. Over 90% of US journalists contribute to the Democratic party. Several of them were caught in direct collusion with the Clinton campaign to sway the outcome of the 2016 election.

Here is a list of media outlets owned by General Electric in 2008:

NBCUniversal (now owned by Comcast)

NBC - National Broadcasting Company

NBC Entertainment

NBC News

TheGrio.com

Peacock Productions

NBC Sports

NBC Studios

NBCUniversal Sports & Olympics

NBCUniversal Television Group

Universal Television

NBCUniversal Television Distribution

NBCUniversal International Television

WNBC 4 - New York

KNBC 4 - Los Angeles

WMAQ 5 - Chicago

WCAU 10 - Philadelphia

KNTV 11 - San Jose/San Francisco

KXAS 5 - Dallas/Fort Worth²

WRC 4 - Washington

WTVJ 6 - Miami

KNSD 39 (cable 7) - San Diego²

WVIT 30 - Hartford

NBC Nonstop

LXTV

EMKA, Ltd.

NBC Universal Digital Media

NBC Universal Cable

A&E

The Biography Channel

Crime & Investigation Network

The History Channel

The History Channel en Español

History Channel International

Lifetime

Military History Channel

Bravo

Chiller

CNBC

CNBC World

MSNBC (co-owned with Microsoft)

mun2

SyFy

ShopNBC

Sleuth

USA Network

Universal HD

The Weather Channel

Weatherscan

The Weather Channel Interactive

weather.com

The Weather Channel Mobile

The Weather Channel Desktop

Weather Services International

NBCUniversal Global Networks

NBCUniversal Global Networks

LAPTV (Latin America)

Telecine (Brazil)

Universal Channel Latin America (except Brazil)

Universal Channel Brazil (co-owned with Globosat Canais);

Sci Fi Channel (Latin America)

NBCUniversal Global Networks España.

Telemundo

KVEA/KWHY - Los Angeles

WNJU - New York

WSCV - Miami

KTMD - Houston

WSNS - Chicago

KXTX - Dallas/Fort Worth

KVDA - San Antonio

KSTS - San Jose/San Francisco

KTAZ - Phoenix

KBLR - Las Vegas

KNSO - Fresno

KDEN-TV - Longmont, Colorado

WNEU - Boston/Merrimack

KHRR - Tucson

WKAQ - Puerto Rico (independent Spanish station)

Universal Studios (co-owned with Comcast)

Universal Pictures

Focus Features

Rogue

Working Title Films

Universal Studios Licensing

Universal Animation Studios

Universal Interactive

Universal Pictures International

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Universal Home Entertainment Productions

United International Pictures (co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom);

Universal Operations Group

Universal Production Studios

Universal Parks & Resorts

Qubo - Qubo Venture,LLC

Many bad people criticize the media because they notice the 'media' no longer employs EDITORS to check the accuracy of a 'story.' It used to be: An 'editor' would check a story for accuracy before airing or printing the story. And if a 'reporter' did not learn, that they would be CHECKED, he/she would be fired.

You mean the Fake media.... Don't you. I like the media but not the FAKE one. Its the pronoun that is the insult here.

The same reason that good people criticize the media. It is corrupt, controlled by corporations, and is agenda-driven and not fact-driven