I highly recommend Krystal and Saagar for intelligent news analysis. The sad state of the news media came up twice on this show. First, they report on a recent court opinion that you will not find covered by NYT/WaPo/NPR. Obama-appointed federal judge, Cynthia Bashant wrote in her opinion that Rachel Maddow is among those TV personalities “whose statements cannot reasonably be interpreted as allegations of fact.”

Second, see Saagar’s commentary (min 56) regarding the sad state of American news media. The U.S. news media is the only industry mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. Whether we have a meaningful democracy depends on the quality of our fact-gathering and yet the U.S. news media quality is deemed loathsome, according to a recent survey Krystal and Saagar discuss.