All you have to do is contrast the Media's Planetary Defense Shield around Humpher Biden with the 24/7/365 wheel-to-wheel massed Media artillery barrages against Palin and Trump.
Don't even get me started on the protection grid deployed around Pants-Poopin' Joek and The Ho.
The ever-active and combined deceitful misdirection against Palin (even in the underlying article and its native responses) stands on its own, of course, and is easily recognized even in the absence of contrast.
You refer to a second, closely related and equally important although opposite threat - that of censorship.
The threats are naturally quite different and call for two different reactions, two different skill-sets and two different game plans (see NFL).
Options to the MSM, such as FreeRepublic are an effective tool to combat misdirection. It also would be helpful if R politicians recognized a role, if not an obligation, to effectively respond to instances of misdirection during MSM interviews, even if off topic.
Sarah is the ONLY political candidate who could carry Trump’s anti-media torch. When the MSM keyed up on Trump, he used it for free media, knowing that negative media is media. He won the presidency as a result.
Sarah gets under the MSM skin almost as much as Trump. She just doesn’t have a $Billion in her back pocket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzkBfTfiXS0