The free market vision you are deriding is failing because of government licensing and law making. Only certain outlets are licensed to print news. And laws a

The free market vision you are deriding is failing because of government licensing and law making. Only certain outlets are licensed to print news. And laws are written to prevent what are perceived to be slanderous rumours. This is to say, information is not actually free. And free movement of information is essential for a free market. I also think that implicit in what you state, is a request for greater governance to manage the free market. If you ask me, what you really want is less government oversight. You may respond to say that we will be run by robber barons, if we have even less oversight, or free information. To which I would respond that we are already run by (the worst) robber barons who currently maintain their control via their control of the governance apparatus, and the illusion many hold that we have anything like a free market. It's just that we are suffering under our illusion so much, that we don't even recognise the problem! If you ask me, we actually live under a form of disguised fascism, where governments and corporations work together and pretend we have democracy and a free market. They use their mouth pieces (media, education) to misinform us.