Glen Greenwald pwns the Federal Media.
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The reason there's so little government censorship of the press in America is because it's totally unnecessary; why would the government even want to censor a media this compliant and subservient? Recall the derision heaped upon the media even by Bush's own former Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, for being "too deferential" to administration propaganda. As soon as an entity emerges that provides genuinely adversarial coverage of the U.S. Government -- such as WikiLeaks, whistleblowers, or isolated articles exposing its malfeasance -- the repressive measures come fast and furious. But in general, it's no more necessary for the U.S. Government to censor the American media than it would be for Barack Obama to try to silence Robert Gibbs.
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Pretty interesting read. Greenwald has been following Wikileaks for quite sometime and he's been churning out one smackdown after another regarding the fawning deference of the Federal Media to the Federal Government and the abject incompetency of the Federal Media when it comes to getting facts straight.