tee-hee, nice to see you all tie yourselves in knots.
Colin, notice I talk about "the average american" not "the average opranaut" for an important reason - most of the people here are better informed than most of their fellow country-men-women.
Your government doesn't control your media in that it doesn't WRITE the stories - but it provides a good deal of the material used to build the stories. You all pride yourselves on "balance" such as the democratic reply to the republic president's "state of the union" address - yet nothing in that speech is discussed more than 15 seconds after it is done, because the whitehouse controls the news cycle, has the press on speed dial, has a spokesmen, news confercences, releases, and the authority of being "right" every time they speak, because it is the whitehouse.
The whitehouse doesn't write the news, but they sure do lay down a strong trail of breadcrumbs to lead the media to the required result. The media is independant, but with only a certain collection of facts to work from, the results can for the most part be planned and guided.
If you can't see it, well, then your a victim of it.
Alex
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