Today, a lot of the anti-media fervor is about open bias against Trump. And you know what...in a sense, the critics are right. Trump's divisive campaign has shattered the old notions -- clung to for too long, by too many -- of media objectivity. And you know what: It's about damn time. Journalism can't exist without a functioning democracy...and vice versa. In promising his supporters that the election results will be "rigged," in threatening to jail his opponent if he wins, in vowing to violate the U.S. Constitution with a religious test for immigrants, by expanding the crime of torture and in using the power of the White House to destroy press critics, Trump has posed the greatest threat to the American way of life since the Civil War. For journalists to sound the alarm about this threat is not just a good idea -- it's essential. And to not to so would be to voluntarily surrender as the values we stand for are crushed.