Does that also entail their complicity in government secrets?
I suspect it does. News is, by definition, new information about influential and important developments. Aside from disasters and the fads of modern culture, what government does is the primary source of news. Having a monopoly, a “special relationship” with the halls of power, which is not available to the average citizen, is a requirement for very profitable media production. Which is why, I think, major media outlets are handmaidens to the centers of government power and their “journalists” are mere stenographers of opinions, whims, and the vicissitudes of government agents. They thrive on secrecy, closed deliberations, and the totally subjective and whimsical powers granted to legislators and bureaucrats. They are abettors of closed and opaque government processes. If Obama has abandoned any important component of his campaign positions, it is his failure to aggressively implement govvernment transparency. Is that evasion a requirement for maintaining media support? Of so, it’s mor
