It’s never too often to discuss how the 4th Estate has completely abandoned its role in a society establishing “freedom of the press.” As we have discussed before, journalists, only a few years ago, took immense pride in challenging falsehoods emanating from the media. And then, . . . . Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. At that point, everything changed.
The internet has not been scrubbed (yet). You can still pull up media articles from 2014 and 2015 that reported facts on the unsavory terrorists we were arming in Syria, in the fascist and racist policies of the Ukrainian government, and in the corruption in the United States government shown in the Wikileaks releases. But in 2016, that came to an abrupt end.