Sexual harassment, assault charges, fake news; Is there no decency and respect in America anymore

Since the beginning of our great Republic, there once was respect for privacy and a decent approach to journalism. We never spoke about a colleague or peer who may have strayed. We kept to ourselves and based the overall performance of the man/woman on their overall character and job performance. In today's news cycle we hear everything negative in a 2 minute spin that actually probably, more than likely, has no factual base. No, I'm not speaking about Herman Cain, I'm talking about the POTUS. I've never heard or remember the disdain and putrid comments made about our elected Commander in Chief. Terms like "the anointed one" (Hannity), "Barry Obama" (Limbaugh), "our blacks are better than their blacks" (Coulter), have erased all due respect and decency our country had archived. Thomas Jefferson once said "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors".