I think our free press is a thing of the past. They’re all lined up with the anointed one.
Except for talk radio and the internet, which are targeted for censorship.
Moreover the popular fascination with politics, and the political press are both, as I recollect, American innovations.
It's not for nothing that First Amendment, as is the rest of that Bill of Rights. The Founders and the public then at the founding wanted to protect certain distinctly American innovations in civil society.
Not particular presses, nor religions, but to ensure access by all citizens to the press, to religions and religious practices, to all the arms of a military and navy, to jury trials, etc. A level of un-infringed liberty in access to all of those, founded on a special brotherhood of trust in fellow Americans -- that was the uniqueness.
But that NEVER meant a "free press" in the sense you lament. The press all always been highly biased, and always forms alliances with power.
If we don’t like the free press, we can just create our own. The old school press is going broke. Nobody buys their lies any more.
Unfortunately it is true for both sides, be it Republicans and Democrats in the USA,or left parties/right parties in other countries, who are simply two sides of the same coin. The new world order has utter control, and simply counts on a false right vs left paradigm war. You may think there are huge ideological differences, but at the end of the day, they both pass laws or capitulate to unlawful acts that further strengthen the global power broker’s control, whilst getting the populace to bitterly fight over small potatoes.
So true. What we have is not a press representing all people, just a Pravda like press pushing the propaganda of the Dem party.
I gotta believe that some journalist(s) will jump ship, if not for ethical reasons, but out of sheer opportunism, and scoop the others. For God’s sake, do they even teach that in journalism school anymore? Or has that been replace by ‘the smear’?