> The fourth estate continues to fall because it's, ironnically, run by the liberal arts _elite_.
No it's run by the same billionaires that run everything else. You're mistaking the employees for the employers.
The reason they hire a certain subset of upper middle class liberal arts majors is because that's a group of people who study in order to learn their beliefs and gain their credentials, rather than to learn skills and accumulate experience. They'll have any opinion you tell them to have that isn't about an issue that affects themselves or their loved ones. Since they and their friends are upper middle class, very few things will ever affect them in a negative way other than disease, prejudice, or domestic violence. Oh, and mean people on twitter.