The establishment press is panicking because they can no longer effectively perform the role of narrative gatekeepers. Information will simply route around them via internet services. Hence their current hypocritical attacks on all alternative media outlets and failure to champion the cause of real journalism (eg. Assange). In 2003 they helped launch an illegal and murderous invasion of Iraq, but these days any narrative they try to push will be obliterated by the internet in days.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”