Why Does American Media Dislike Putin & Russia ?

Why does the U.S. media gratuitously disparage Vladimir Putin and by extension Russia? There are 189 countries in the United Nations. Our media can alternate pro or con on 188 but when it comes to Russia it becomes a unanimous media that Russia is evil. What philosophy or political belief in the media so skews the media to lock step its neyt in harmony to Russian policies? Some might say our recent election carries the narrative that Russia interfered in favor of Trump and contra Clinton.So that's a good reason to thumb down Russia.But our media's dislike of Putin and Russia predated the recent presidential election.Russia could be and should should be America's ally. Between us approximately 26,000 nuclear war heads are in silos or on subs or guess where.We don't need an enemy with as much fire power as we have. On the contrary we would be natural stabilizers of the planet at the best possible scenario. I have a speculation. I think the media doesn't like Putin's policies towards the LBBTQ acronym. And that's enough red meat for the progressives in the media to steer our foreign policy in the direction of more tolerance for the LGBTQ at the expense of sounder foreign policy alliances.Bad trade off.