After working in the printing industry for 26 years with much of that work in Newspapers, I can verify that the most powerful weapon in the SRM (state run media) is the spike. They spike any story which contradicts their agenda to make sure it does not see the light of day.
Lies, distortion, errors in something which is reported are easy to spot.
However, if they don’t report the story, most will never know the story existed.
You don’t know, what you don’t know. That sounds convoluted but is exactly what the media does rather than risk publishing a distortion.
See how fast the Video scam was disproved? However it is taking much longer to find out what was never printed/reported.
We have been lied and cheated out of our Country, our rights, our freedoms by politicians of all stripes and a very willing SRM.
I have taken to calling it the American Soviet Media.
It's taking longer still for the guy who made the video that didn't cause the havoc to get out of the slammer. Last I heard he's still there.