Modern news reporting has been “a triumph of the idiot culture,” says the co-author of one of the biggest selling books of investigative journalism in American history, All The President’s Men. According to a report in The Lawrence Journal-World by Dave Ranney, in a speech to the Kansas Press Association, former Washington Post reporter and bestselling author the Carl Bernstein said “the ever-escalating quest for profits” was responsible, “And the consequences to a society that is misinformed and disinformed by the grotesque values of this idiot culture are truly perilous.”