mr peters speaks his mind on the subject of 'our free press';

Like a spigot that gets turned on – and off – there has been very little in the “news” about Keeeeevvvvv since the election. Nor, for that matter, about the ongoing slaughter in Gaza.

This constitutes what you might call a tell. About the nature of the “news.”  More finely, about the control over what is presented as the “news” by those who control it. Who are these controllers? More like what are these controllers. They are a handful – about half a dozen – interlocking corporate cartels. Together, they own the outlets that broadcast and publish (print and online) what is called the “news.”

They control the flow of what you’re allowed to know. By letting you know what they want you to know – and ignoring what they would like for you to not know. For example – as regards the latter – what is going on in Western North Carolina? Does anyone who is not actually there know? How could they? The “news” turned the spigot off weeks ago. It is thus as if there was no “news” to know. Before the handful of corporate cartels acquired control over the outlets that broadcast the “news” – or don’t broadcast it – there would have been ongoing coverage of the news coming out of Western North Carolina and the adjacent areas of Tennessee – where catastrophic damage was done, first by the hurricane and then by the malevolent inaction (and suppression of private action) of the federal government.

Because that sort of thing used to be news........more.......