The media runs this country into the ground for their cronies (political and otherwise), when they should be exposing corruption, waste, fraud and abuse. We’ve allowed our government and elected officials to be hijacked by crooked pols and predators that use other peoples money to advance and feed into their power. Much of what you read in the media is intended to advance the philosophy.
Agreed! We need to start a large number of new, small, free newspapers again. At some point in the economic decline, there will be enough support for a few willing to write the truth in each locale. I’ll add the suggestion for a printing press to some of those developing open source equipment designs.