And this is the case because the Western mainstream media are the propaganda
services of the U.S.-centralized empire. They do not exist to tell people the
truth, they exist to manipulate the public into hating the official enemies of
the empire and into consenting to foreign-policy agendas that they would not
otherwise consent to.
Imperial propagandists lower their editorial standards when reporting on
official enemies not because they are bad at their job, but because they are
very good at their job. It’s just that their job isn’t what we’ve been told.