Shortly after his retirement, the late Senator Barry Goldwater was asked what he thought about the future of America. He said "We'll be fine unless the media kills us". When asked to elaborate, the pilot and one-time Presidential candidate explained the media's lack of any sense of history. News had given way to a hysterical view of the world where the sky was always falling [and] America could never do anything right.
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From the Preserving America Library of History and Government