[twirlip]

In the age of ubiquitous information sharing, the news of cops raiding a newspaper office is rather not a signal the system is working, than it is a klaxon that the system is failing.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Alright. Please show me a system that works to your standards then.

[twirlip]

There are metrics that describe such standards. One such is the University of Würzburg's Democracy Matrix, another is the Corruption Perception Index.