A lot of people describe our press as “free & open” because it is not owned by the state. They ignore that it is owned by six multinational conglomerates whose shareholders have a unified set of class interests that get reflected in nearly 100 percent of media coverage every day.

A free press means more than Potemkin dissent from MSNBC and the New York Times. It means mainstream outlets critically questioning the economic and political order that rules our lives. There’s a reason Americans consume media 24/7 and know nothing about their country or world.

It’s easy to find stories that criticize whoever the POTUS is at the time, because this form of dissent puts no stress on a corporate-capitalist worldview. Try finding one MSM outlet that reported accurately on the failed fascist coup to privatize Bolivia’s lithium last year.

“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.”

—Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & Reds

"Excuse me sir I've been a senior producer at Hypnotoad Broadcast Group for 20 years and I've only been cattle prodded once for using a Level Three Hostile Adjective to describe Monsanto lobbying against clean water laws. Unlike you I stick to the facts."

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Within the corporate-controlled media system there remain good journalists doing a good job. That's not the point. Ask yourself: Why are the most essential stories/themes of our time (climate change, imperialism, poverty and wealth, etc.) barely topics of discussion in U.S. life?

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