What do you think is the role of the free press today, compared to the historical free press?I need help ASAP
Prior to the 1970s, the free press was an arena of competing lies. Since then they've told one unified lie. Since the internet and AM radio started carrying alternative news, about 1995, the main goal of the free press is to get rid of the freedom, which is interfering with the chorus of coordinated lies. Back in the golded age of the free press (which is why they called it Yellow Journalism) Pulitzer and Hearst fought a daily battle on the front pages to get readers. They told outrageous lies to support their own papers. The Media today (MSM: Main Stream Media it's often called) speaks with the same viewpoint, ideological purity and even the same words. They tell outrageous lies to promote their own political party. google [obama it's the optics] to find dozens of news sources all spontaneously using the phrase it's the optics on the same day to describe the First Lady's vacation to Spain.
There is more press today and there is greater access. In the past there was one or two pieces for a geographic region.
