Not to mention the more insidious practice of seeding the official dogma via the “sources” reporters cultivate. If the need two sources (used to be standard) who’s to say the second source that “confirms” the info of the first isn’t also on board with the message? It’s shocking how little skepticism reporters show towards what they’re told. Are they so eager to be the ones in the know that they’ll accept any storyline they’re told? Seems so. Of course the big bosses are more likely in direct contact with higher ups in government that probably assure them, ‘hey we’re all on the same side here.’ That side is assuredly not that of the public interest. Journalism has been infected with the same contempt our elites have for common folk. Reporters would rather pretend they belong in the elite class than do the dirty job of telling us what those elites are doing behind our backs.