how desperately today’s “journalists” desire for the government to tell them what they can and cannot do.
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Them?
No!
People with the marxist mentality want oppression imposed on everyone. What is implicit and not expressed in that is that the privilege/power class will typically be exempt from it’s effects.
The "journalists" do *not* expect the government to tell them what to do. They expect to tell the government what to tell others to do. They expect to be exempt from what the government tells others, and they are mostly correct.
The real power in the USA has been the Media, and those who direct those in the Media.