The JFK files that trump stupidly forced to be released with no redactions, confirms that the CIA has deals with news companies to make the CIA and Government in general look better in the press.
We haven’t had a free press in half a century or more.
It’s called sane-washing, and it’s how Trump got elected, twice.
Yes, the mainstream press is equivalent to a government owned press.
Perhaps in a literal fashion too since all of these are owned by oligarchs who own the government. They have the same masters, he and the press.
The JFK files that trump stupidly forced to be released with no redactions, confirms that the CIA has deals with news companies to make the CIA and Government in general look better in the press.
We haven’t had a free press in half a century or more.
We had small independent newspapers by the hundreds in the 1970s; and that was better than the handful of companies now.