Please note:
It is both futile and fruitless to complain about the "media."
The "Media" are NOT on "our" side. They are NOT the "friends" pf liberty or demicracy. Their ideology and inclinations are 'center-right' (NBC, CBS, ABC, and their satellites) to "far Right" (e.g., FauxNooz, OAN, etc). The last vestiges of "free press" were erased in the consolidation-monopolization era of the 80s an 90s, under Raygoon's gunsels and the Murdoch invasion.
It's institutional: they ALL lean, all of those which do not totally tilt, to the ideologies and policies of the corporations which OWN them because (as you really SHOULD have recognized by now), they are now ONLY vehicles for 1) corportate propaganda, 2) corpoRat profit and 3) preserving/promoting the political, economic, social/cultural status quo.
ThePress puts on assorted "First Amendment" airs And garments, sometimes, to project themselves as the friends or guardians of the people (which they are not), which they have to do to preserve the appearances. It's the essence of their business model.
But any commitment to popular issues which might trouble any established apple-carts or THEIR owners is paper/pixels thin.
The corporate media are inherently, structurally and ideologically opposed to any deep social or cultural change.
They WON'T help. They WILL intrude to surreptitiously put a thumb on the scales of public opinion.
"The Press is free to them who own one." A.J. Liebling, 1946.
That is, there is NO "free press."
It is captive of the interests of those who own it.
In effect, the 'free press' wrote it's own obituary when it brought down Nixon. It had always, theoretically, been possible, But Katherine Graham and the WaPo she'd inherited, proved it, and once that occurred, the PTB were NEVER going to permit it to happen again.
There was plenty of reason and evidence to prompt them to "go after" *TFG as they did RMN. There wasn't the instiutiutional will...
