That type of information landscape isn't a threat when it is lies to various degrees, in total. Polls indicate that most Americans don't see the Press as free

That type of information landscape isn't a threat when it is lies to various degrees, in total. Polls indicate that most Americans don't see the Press as free (trustworthy). They now view it more akin to how people do in authoritarian states. There are reasons for that outside of observer error. What's more insidious? An openly captured press that is expected to lie or a captured press that claims the banner of freedom? Last, objective observation of lock-step action of institutions over the past seven years or so, for example, seems to hint at a lack of independence. As would any indication of a concrete lie that the press seems to be cooperating in hiding.