To support power, there are the media;
to kill people, firearms are not needed.
Freedom of speech for the mass media:
freedom for the mass media to say anything—roses bloom.
People live believing the fiction called reporting;
today, too, the sky is perfectly clear.
Thinking back, it seems that the mass media have always supported war. When you think about it, the mass media are one of the wartime industries: when war breaks out, ratings rise and they profit.
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