In America, we hear the clarion call again and again, about how important it is to have a free press, as well as freedom of speech, but the bottom line is that the mainstream press, so represented by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, ABC, NBC, and CBS, are themselves wholly captured by corporate America, and therefore whatever is good for corporate America is thereby good for these entities. This means that mainstream media really has little interest in expressing itself freely, but rather has a specific agenda that it desires to get across, and this thus signifies that though they are the press, they are not disseminating to the people the whole truth of what is really happening to the public, whatsoever.
On the other hand, a vibrant free press, is an entity that questions authority, that questions power, and has as its upmost purpose to put before the people, their perception of what is really going on and what it means, and thereby to let the people decide which side of the issue that they are on. That is to say, a free press provides germane information to the people, for the edification of the people, so that a more fully informed public can decide what should or should not subsequently be done on behalf of those people.
Instead, we have a mainstream press whose main interest is profit, followed by the fact that it greatly desires to manipulate the people, along with selling the illusion to the people, that the people are sovereign and free to choose, even though the choices so presented to them, are pretty much the same, no matter which way that they go. This signifies that, because corporate America has fully captured the mainstream press, that the business of the mainstream press is pretty much selling the illusion that they are providing to the general public, “all the news that is fit to print,” but in actuality they are only printing that which is to their preference.
Back in the day, when newspapers and circulars were the way that communities got their news about what was going on in their community and beyond, the press really did a good job, of getting out in front of stories of import, because they knew that it mattered to the community, to know what was really happening. Further to the point, newspapers and circulars weren’t beholden to advertisers but rather depended upon subscriptions for their revenue, signifying that the news that they printed had to matter to those who were reading it.
Today, our mainstream media simply wants to get across to the general public what they ought to think and what they ought to care about, signifying that they aren’t really interested in people thinking for themselves, and therefore don’t desire for people to have independent or unorthodox thoughts, at all, but rather they want them to believe that the business of the people is simply to concentrate on the earning of money or going to school, and to leave the thinking to the purveyors of the mainstream press, so that the duty of the people is to learn to listen to the what the mainstream press is telling them to listen to, and then to be compliant to it.