I considered the same argument you are making before posting my comment. However, for this to have happened in USA it means we are half way there or getting the

I considered the same argument you are making before posting my comment. However, for this to have happened in USA it means we are half way there or getting there. The media is controlled by two factions now: Government through access (you don't get to come to white house if you piss us off or you wont get the interview) Large corporations and the major characters behind them. (i.e. Fox news, Viacom, etc. This is not the path to maintain an open society. We don't need thugs like less sophisticated media controlled countries , we control media in a much more elegant way. But the results are the same!