A difference of degree rather than kind. It's not as if the press hasn't been previous administrations' lapdogs. The US press screamed for war with Spain despite W.R. Hearst and his fellow vultures knowing full-well Spain didn't sink the USS Maine in Habana harbor. The near blackout on any news that puts "Israel" in a bad light, since at least the latter half of the Truman administration up through five minutes ago. Such as dutifully covering up Johnson's and McNamara's treason during the IDF attack on the USS Liberty--including not publishing Captain Thomas Moorer's (USNR Ret) 2003 admission he was directly ordered to find the IDF attack "accidental" when he served on the Naval Board of Inquiry after the attack. Then there was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident--which never happened. And of course the pathetically obedient, "embedded" press which in 2003 only told whatever lies it was authorized to tell. Can you say "WMD", boys and girls?

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