The Ministry of Propaganda has always been like this, this is no surprise.
People must be kept uninformed.
The Associated Press “wire” is a continuous virtual meeting of all of major US journalism. What does that mean?People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsIt means that major US journalism has been in a conspiracy against the public since the memory of living man runneth not to the contrary (the AP dates back before the Civil War).What does that “conspiracy” do? It homogenizes journalism compeletely such that if you’ve seen one report on an event, you’ve seen them all. It assures that journalists actually believe that they are objective - even as they know that they are negative towards American society. To think that conventional negative reporting is “objective” is absurd: “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a very serviceable definition of cynicism.
Cynicism towards society corresponds to faith in government - a combination which is a good description of socialism. Thus, journalism as we know it is socialist propaganda. Inherently.