This is, unfortunately, quite false. It would be an opinion I had a few years ago, but after much investigation of foreign policy and the like its extremely cle

This is, unfortunately, quite false. It would be an opinion I had a few years ago, but after much investigation of foreign policy and the like its extremely clear how much actual content is decided by governments. Most neutrally, for example, consider the run up to the iraq war: what was said, what was printed, and so on. But more recently, consider what's printed or included on any TV programme about any of the major conflicts in the world. There is no context or analysis or history provided. There's, at most, two sides: the government's preferred case and the government's preferred opposition to that case. This does not take much research, today at least, to discover -- frequently even mainstream expert opinion, outside of the government, says precisely the opposite. And that this is never broadcast or written about. Vast swathes of the media elite maintain their access to information via governments, and the wealth via ad companies. They are empty moronic vessels who perform the most ill-informed scepticism you could imagine. But it all passes with the public who think that if there's a leftwing view and a rightwing view on an event, then the event itself isn't made up -- or the facts shared across them must be true. But, often enough: nope. On the cultural side, the FTC and the Hollywood censors were in direct contact with TV production companies -- deleting scenes, and the like. Very contentful. All of this is well-documented.