I think Europe has been a bad place for them for a long time, because the church has put religious paranoia into their heads any also was petty terrible to them.
The only societies I can think of where they had a place were some indigenous American ones, where there was a role for people who are in connection with the spirit world.
I’d rather have neutral, fact based reporting. That one party endorses “alternative facts” was a choice by that party. It doesn’t mean that people more grounded in reality are biased.
In other words: if you are an US-American news source that reports neutrally, the vast majority of your staff will be voting Democrats.