February 5, 2025
Turns out we have a state-sponsored media after all, except that they didn't tell us
By Monica Showalter
Up until now, I'd been under the impression that a free and independent press is a must-have for any credible democracy.
Isn't that what groups like, say, Freedom House, have told us for a number of years?
Wasn't a state-controlled press the sort of thing the Soviets, the Chinese, the Cubans, and other communists did to trash civil liberties, along with a lot of petty dictators?
Weren't we Americans supposed to be unlike them -- what with a free, transparent, independent press and all?
Eat your hearts out, Pravda, TASS, RT, Xinhua, Granma, etc.
Turns out we had a state-controlled press, too, and I'm not talking about NPR or Voice of America, which are up front about their funding. Big chunks of the rest of the supposedly independent press were too, except that they went those communist places one better by not telling their readers. They took aid from USAID and became the state-controlled presses, too, and all you had to do was look at their "product." Any questions as to why they were so biased?
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