Americans need to get over the myth that we have a “free press” in the USA. The free press has been gone for a very long time. All US media – even many ‘indie’ media sources – are owned by the same six corporations.

Americans also need to understand that main-stream media (MSM) is controlled and heavily infiltrated by CIA operatives at all levels. Progressives like to believe that reading the New York Times makes them well-informed citizens. Nothing could be further from the Truth. The Times was referred to as the ‘CIA’s Newspaper’ by Bob Woodward many years ago in Rolling Stone magazine. He made that judgment because virtually all of The Times’ top level editors are beholden to The Agency. That was in the early 1980s.

NYT propaganda works so well because its owners understand how propaganda works. The Times does have an excellent editorial section, and it does do some good investigative reporting; but always well within the parameters of the very limited agenda demanded by the ruling Junta. Propaganda works because it mixes fact with fiction so well the target population can’t even recognize it.

People need to dig deep to find real news these days. It certainly is non-existent on the major US networks. They don’t even bother to “embed” reporters to cover our global war anymore because the last thing the elite want is exposure of the war crimes we commit daily. Besides, virtually every foreign correspondent on American “news” networks already works for The Agency.

Corporate media all sing exactly the same tune as the warmongers because the Deep State learned its lessons more than 60 years ago when college campuses across the country (and the world) violently rebelled against the Vietnam War in the late 60s. America’s most respected news reader, Walter Cronkite, stated emphatically that the war was unwinnable – on national television! Today he would have lost his job – and probably be deported – but back then the rest of the major media outlets eventually joined him in their dissent.

Our beloved military-industrial complex never forgot – or forgave – that brief shining moment of Americans finally speaking truth to power. The Junta recognized the legitimate danger to their future war plans and so they quickly began recruiting journalists and buying up and consolidating major media outlets across the USA. The result is the colorful array of parrots that we now call the mainstream media (MSM).

It is alarming that much of the media is now being deployed to spread the impression this is all uniquely germane to Donald Trump’s presidency and not a long-term, bi-partisan reality which enabled the ascendance of a scumbag like Trump.

Dictatorships flourish and prosper in part by re-writing history and replacing it with an a-historical, de-contextualized – and therefore permanent – present. Without understanding one’s own history it is impossible to take measures to correct it or ensure it does not happen in the future. This is effectively what the MSM has done with Donald Trump.

The GOP have no respect for the Constitution, despite all their claims about wanting to protect it. Much like the Bible, they ignore the parts they don’t like and deliberately misrepresent the parts they do; such as the 2nd amendment. If the Trumpanzees had their way, the 1st Amendment wouldn’t even be there.

The latest despicable attacks on the press are nothing new. Trump and his team know that such petty attacks score points with his moronic support base. Part of the problem is that the press isn’t a very sympathetic victim. Corporate media is all about profits, not an informed citizenry. Look at how much free press Trump got last year simply because he was “good for ratings.”

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”

– Noam Chomsky

The MSM is controlled by Wall Street, the Intel community, the billionaires who own it and the big corporations. The media is most assuredly NOT liberal. The myth of the “liberal media” is one of the most successful pieces of propaganda ever devised and it has been used for decades to manipulate public opinion.

That said; there are still many sources of news and commentary that are not bowing down to the Mercers and the Koch Demons and Wall Street. You just won’t find them on the TV or on many radio stations. It is ominous that the new head of the FCC just killed net neutrality.

The Trump Regime is a nightmare from top to bottom.

MSNBC, NYT, Washington Post and the rest of the “nominally liberal” media are in reality more neo-liberal and neo-conservative. They support globalism, militarism, unregulated banking, and basically the whole agenda of the billionaire class. Both political parties – Democrats and Republicans – are in line with the major media.

The use of the term ‘Liberal’ to describe media like the NYT or WaPo was introduced by right wing blowhard William F. Buckley as a way of steering them harder to the right. He openly questioned their neutrality. The NYT, WaPo, MSNBC love big business, and they especially love big war.

There IS fake news, but it’s coming from all of the above. Our media is a tool of the establishment, feeding Americans pabulum but more importantly NOT COVERING essential stories…

Al Jazeera is gone; RT, Wikileaks and internet freedoms are under attack. As a US citizen it’s frightening to see how the state works to control what we see and hear.

Internet and social media are the future of ‘real’ news.