After working in print media, I found truth is rarely mentioned in the newsroom. Don't step on advertiser toes is mentioned. Don't cross the school system, or other entity for whom management spouses might work. When two different contractors offered me proof of bidding irregularities on a public building, editor refused to allow follow up, as his wife worked for the ones involved! If a paper gets tpo conservativs, they risk losing those lucrative nationalshove ads. Then going back several years, but still attended by Obama and every national publisher, are the Bilderberger meetings, pushing one world government, and keeping their goals secret, even from their own employees. Then the schools rewrite history, TV pushes circus for the morons, and soon the whole system, is like something out of Orwell. Russia said we would destroy ourselves from within, no via military attack, and we have fallen right into their plan. The elite rich are so sure they know what is best, they have become a tool for communism, while pushing one world utopia.

Yes, ironical that Soviet propaganda was so little believed yet today the progressivist narratives have wide acceptance.

I recall the story about why productivity in Russia was so low,
the worker says- They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.

Both the Reps and the Dems have used "their" medias ro distribute the truth as they would like it to
be. Its not just the Russians. In a totolitarian government they can effectively suppress the opposition. Americans have been led into war at least twice that I can think of by "yellow journalism". col. McCormick and the Chi Tribune convinced the publick that Cuba torpedoed the battleship Maine in Havana harbor (actually a boiler exploded) but with "Remember the Maine!" we went to war with Spain. Lyndon Johnson used propaganda effectively to escalate the Viet Nam war with Gulf of Tonkin incident (NV torpedo boat detected on sonar turned out to be a farty whale.

Also the choice of words can change the entire meaning of a report (cf "When I look at you time stops" visavis "Your face would stop a clock."

I'd like to see Hillsdale Collage offer an on-line course on "The Role of the Press in a Free Society"

Nicely done, but nothing new to me. Watching the talking heads on MSM has reminded me many times of of the bygone Soviet mouthpiece, Vladimir Posner, on "Nightline". The NYT, et al, as well as my local fish wrapper have been more like Soviet Pravda than actual American newspapers for a couple of decades at least.

"...You can fool some of the people some of the time..."

Ironically, both the Soviets and the Nazis learned their propaganda skills from President Wilson's chief propagandist, Edward Bernays and the Committee on Public Information. After successfully demonizing the Germans with exaggerated claims of atrocity, Bernays later wrote a book on the subject, called Propaganda. Marketing folks often have this little volume in their library.

Well stated.
But, other than clarifying the minds of some who are confused there is really nothing to be added or subtracted from the presentation.

I've stopped paying any attention to Prager since he declared (astoundingly) that atheists have no moral reason not to commit murder. Pragewr doesn't often lie, but his superstitions occasionally, unpredictably overpower his reason.