“You are fake news!” “ The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People.” “All those people in the back are fake news.” Since the 2016 elections and with the growing rise of populism around the world, we have heard these sentence time and time again. While the first two of the above quotes can be attributed to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the third is from a “news anchor”, Sean Hannity. What strikes me is there seems to be a consensus among conservative intellectuals around the fact that the news media is biased and not reporting the news objectively. While this question can be debated over issues such as coverage time and content disparities between different news stations, these allegations against the free press are truly damning and dangerous for the very core of our democracy. As this is a never-ending debate, we must wonder ourselves: Who is the media? What is the free press and who can we consider a journalist? Is opinion journalism a true form of jo...