Trump rejects key tenets that the U.S. establishment and their media allies hold as sacrosanct: "Free Trade," American exceptionalism, and Cold War with Russia. The New York Times, for example, explicitly advocates imposing "Free Trade" around the world: It certainly has, but what kind of results the article doesn't say. The Times has also condemned Trump for not embracing the state religion like they do. That is he does not accept "the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others," which is true by definition. The corporate media has always been complicit with U.S. imperialism. Former ABC chief White House correspondent Sam Donaldson: The current propaganda framework on U.S.-Russia relations is simply a continuation of that. Recently, the leading papers have gone so far as to call for virtual censorship of independent media that they say promote "Russian propaganda," including Consortiumnews.com. Like any other corporation, the mainstream media doesn't operate on any moral grounds. They don't serve the interests of the public. Many different factors influence news content. One of them is the media's dependence on advertising income. This naturally biases media coverage towards more wealthy audiences, which raises advertising rates. In addition, the Economist noted that media "projects unsuitable for corporate sponsorship tend to die on the vine," adding that "stations have learned to be sympathetic to the most delicate sympathies of corporations." News corporations are mainly in the business of "access journalism." This inevitably requires corporate journalists to be serviceable to power. As Walter Karp noted in 1989: The media are especially serviceable to the CIA. "Whenever it comes to national security issues you see this incredibly close relationship between the media and the intelligence agencies," Glenn Greenwald observes. "When [the media] serve their agenda, they get scoops, they get secret documents, they get access." This quid pro quo relationship led to a merger of sorts. Just about every news corporation has had journalists serving as CIA agents abroad. One infamous Times reporter did CIA-type dirty work in Honduras in the 1980s. In a letter to the Times, Ines Murillo, a Honduran victim of torture, responds to James LeMoyne's reporting of the interview with her, noting a series of distortions and falsehoods, which "have caused great damage to me and my family" and "could be used to justify the kidnapping, disappearance and assassination of hundreds of people." LeMoyne's response doesn't challenge any of her specific points. In the 1990s, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times all helped destroy the career of journalist Gary Webb on the CIA's behalf. It was in retaliation for his reporting on the Contra-cocaine smuggling operation in the 1980s. A declassified CIA report, entitled "Managing a Nightmare," shows the agency used "a ground base of already productive relations with journalists" to counter what it called "a genuine public relations crisis." On the other hand, journalists who challenge the elite consensus usually pay a heavy price. Like Phil Donahue, who was fired from MSNBC in early 2003 for airing antiwar points of view on his show. A leaked MSNBC memo warned Donahue was a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war," providing "a home for the liberal antiwar agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity." There's also the issue of ownership of media which leads to all sorts of conflicts of interests as well.
These are very interesting political times when conservative Pat Buchanan, libertarian Paul Craig Roberts, and The Sane Progressive, Debbie Lusignan share the same world-view. Here is Lusignan, formerly a strong Sanders supporter siding forcefully with Trump regarding faux news:
Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow sold out to the Deep State because they get payed $30,000 a day. That woman in the video is well informed btw.
