And what's the answer to that, then?
The only answer is for the government to attempt to enforce "truth", but all that does is end up being the government controlling access to information, except that now no-one can disagree.
Which one, just the media, or all 3? Nah, I'm kidding, their all in it together. You look at the media landscape, and you will see familiar names such as AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. Oh look, it's the successors of the AT&T monopoly. They also own the 2nd and 3rd largest cable news channels, MSNBC and CNN.
Think about that. Not only do they own the media, they also own the infrastructure. They were the ones paying off local governments so you can't have choice between providers. They were the ones buying off republicans to pretend they like they don't understand net neutrality. Now, they have the balls to tell you that their coverage is fair, and there is no such thing as corporate media.
The government is absolutely complicit with consolidation of the media. The Clinton administration was the one that deregulated media in the first place. They benefit from media consolidation. If the media had any interest in the American people or acted as check for the consolidation of power, then for every they question they ask in front of the 84 million people watching the presidential debates, they would disclose which campaign they colluded with, and instead of asking what a candidate's policies were, they would just list their donors so that we could know their actual policies.
Now, whereas before your only source of information was from those companies, now you have the internet, where memes can spread faster than just by word of mouth. No longer are you passive receiver of information, you are an active participant in disseminating information. You even noticed that during the 2000s, Congress tried many times to regulate the internet?
We can't have nice things , and now the internet has become consolidated. Google and Youtube push up sources such as CNN and MSNBC. What used to be search by relevancy has now become the old media again. Things like government leaks, media fairness, internet censorship, corporate power, socialism, and revolution are pushed down into the no-no list of "fake news" and "conspiracy theories". Independent journals challenging the corporate elite decline in viewership at an exponential rate.
I don't care that Trump is an imbecile and hates being fact checked. Whatever comes out of this, we lose. But when Google, AT&T, and Comcast self censor their services to prop up the Chinese elite, and then when the do they same in the US and everybody just shrugs their shoulders, I'm calling bullshit.
