Gregory's Server@Voline
I personally don't think that you are giving the national security apparatus enough credit in your denunciation of the journalism trade there. I certainly see many shortcomings in the news industry though I wouldn't go so far as to call every major organization fake news. As always the "truth" is written between the line so you've got to read a lot of lines to get it I suppose.
Heck as a longtime climate activist I have seen the media fail miserably, but no one's perfect. I think that they still provide a valuable service personally. The Tucker Carlson types' service is valuable too. Just that it is valuable to my mortal foes so I'm not a fan.
@GreenFire
Not all. The McClatchy newspapers were conspicuous in the skepticism and quality of their coverage of the drive to war. The fact that they were able to present so much evidence contrary to the Bushites assertions, evidence that was excluded from the majority of respectable news outlets, gives the lie to the excuse that the poor reporters were taken in by the security state.