It is frightening to see how much influence the Dem media still has; I was actually believing those stories about the death of the “old media”.
It used to be that only a couple of the larger media would “parrot the administration line” — CBS news was infamous for this, as were, of course the NYTimes and WashPost. However,
there were usually other major media who would still break stories about what was really going on inside the government, eventually anyway.
Today, this seems not the case. Investigative Journalism is dead as a dodo. And, every single newscast seems to feature a sound bite from Dear Leader, no matter how distorted, devisive, or shrill its contents. And, with either NO counter viewpoint to balance the story ... or else a patently ineffective or partial “rebuttal” -— so that the viewer or listener or reader is very much left with the impression that The Alien in Residence is doing wonderful things for us. Out there on his Great Quest, stabbing the Greedy, Lecherous Capitalist Pig Dinosaurs for the poor, righteous, downtrodden Proletarian Masses.
Journalism has become far, FAR less an honest trade than “good old fashioned” Prostitution. With the death of the 4th estate, those in power run amok.. as the governed (ruled) is either misinformed or uninformed, propagandized and thus...unable to direct the affairs of those who are supposed to represent and serve them (us).
The “Ministry of Truth” is alive and well, and the Republic is, alas, discarded in the dustbin.