—DISPATCHES FROM ERIC ZUESSE—
Journalists are hired by aristocrats (actually by the news-executives who in turn hire the reporters), and so these types of clamp-downs occur when a minority faction within the aristocracy challenges the majority-faction for control of the public. The news-media are the eyes and ears of the public, and so anytime that the regime acts to suppress dissident journalistic organizations (such as Zaman or Palestine Today), reflects a civil war within the aristocracy.
Today’s United States (ever since U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush double-crossed Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990) has a unified aristocracy and therefore has no need to shut down or replace top management at its news-media; they represent different factions of the aristocracy but all of America’s aristocratic factions support the agenda that GHW Bush put into place when the Soviet Union ended in 1990-91.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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