caitlin speaks about 'our free press' which isn't;

The primary job of both Hollywood and the mainstream western press is to is to put a friendly, normal-looking face on a globe-spanning empire which dominates the world using nonstop violence and coercion. Their job is to continually normalize freakish tyranny.

They do this in a whole host of ways, including the agenda-setting practice of under-reporting inconvenient facts while amplifying convenient ones to preserve the status quo upon which the plutocrats who control the media have built their respective kingdoms. Today we also see these agenda-setting manipulations in the form of Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation dictating what information westerners take in. 

The normalization of the empire also takes the form of the manufacturing of mainstream culture out of New York and Hollywood, which continually depicts an entirely fictional version of life in the United States and an entirely fictional version of the role played by soldiers, police, journalists and politicians. The crushing poverty, the murderous warmongering, the capitalist extraction and corruption which is the real face of the USA gets almost no representation.........more.........