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[โ€“] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That was how it was before the Vietnam War. The news media disconnected itself from the foreign policy desires of the State Department during the Vietnam War because they actually saw the lies on the ground and reported the facts.

The first Iraq war started the change back to having the news media play lapdog again with "embedded reporters" meaning that the news media couldn't wander by themselves like they did in Vietnam.

So we have shifted back to a news media basically toeing the line for the wishes of the government.