Somehow, we’d think this typifies some, but hopefully not all, in the American media today:

I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that… it is my job. My job is to help this country. … This country needs a successful presidency.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to former Republican morning host Joe Scarborough last Thursday

A decent reporter would be skeptical, would view their duty to report the news as it is: good, bad, or indifferent. Matthews, of course, is not a good reporter.