But the lack of reporting on this contentious issue? It screams for objective reporting!!! Where have the reporters been? Am I now living in the Soviet Union?
The media is part of the coup.
“The biggest power the media has is the power to ignore.” - Chris Plante
A Chinese fen, not a soviet corral.
The Soviets sought to destroy the West by infiltrating entertainment, education, churches, and many other institutions that used to be the sources of national pride and strength. The Soviets were correct that this could work, only mistaken in the amount of time it took.
“It screams for objective reporting!!! Where have the reporters been? Am I now living in the Soviet Union?”
There is no longer any such thing as objective reporting. My view is that this is what we must accept. As for your USSR question, I believe it is actually considerably worse. In the USSR, you would have censorship, of course, but a pretty consistent “party line” and you would be expected to believe that. Remember that in the USSR, there was not the slightest hint of a counter-revolution, either political or informational. We have both of those things, but we also have a VERY active and ever-evolving “feeds” of gaslighting information designed to cast doubt and sow confusion on any given topic. It is because we are in the midst of a giant and active effort to take down and/or dissolve the republic as most of us conceive it.