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“Only over time, the past thirty years especially, our government grew and grew and one of the things that grew out of it was the nefarious “blob” dedicated to protecting the self-enlarging perquisites and interests of that government. Blobs will absorb things they encounter, and in a predatory way, the US government blob absorbed the US news media.”
Kunsler “gets” part of the process, but he confuses cause and effect. The “blob” of progressive ideology absorbed both the Media and the government. The Media was in the dominant position for decades. The 30 year period he mentions was when the power of the Media was waning and they became more desperate to maintain control and power, and traded credibility to temporary power. It is why their machinations became more and more visible.