"Then They Came for the Trade Unionists"...

The founding fathers intended the press to act as our government's fourth estate. However, keeping the citizenry informed is not in the vested interests of the oligarchs who own the allegedly *liberal* main-stream media. I do believe that George Orwell would be proud to know that this modern equivalent of bread and circuses directly employs the framing and narrative creation from his prescient novel 1984. We currently reside in a world where war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength...