What are your thoughts on journalism?

It's fine until it gets politized.

Except for the rare few it has been largely dumbed down over the last ten years.
Never before have so many flatly refused to research and report fact without needing to angle it as an opinion piece.

essential for a functioning democracy

Not good

It’s like the dodo .. extinct

An unexamined life isn't worth living

a noble asset if used for a good cause

Its dead