Ugh, no, this is simply not true. There is a wide spectrum of news you can trivially read, from Fox to BBC to tons of small blogs. If you want to be anywhere

Ugh, no, this is simply not true. There is a wide spectrum of news you can trivially read, from Fox to BBC to tons of small blogs. If you want to be anywhere near Soviet levels, you want to eliminate all viewpoints except one. Until you do this, you are not even close.