Is the US press really that free?

[Honeypot]

This is great post.
I think that same situation is in whole world.
We actually live in masked feudalism, where big "fishes" want to have regular people under control.
Same is for press.
First we need to live in free society where money will not be on the first place, then press will have same opportunity to be free.
That is my opinion.

You are just being enlightened about the fact that power always finds a way to rest its head. To dramatize this as a form of feudalism reeks of 1st world dramatism.

[InwardContour]

US press is by no means free. Look at Fox or CNN: they would show only things which are permitted/approved by the government.

This is not at all true. How do you think Edward Snowden was able to leak all of our NSA secrets? How do you think a number of government whistle-blowers that the Obama administration hates were able to leak their information?

[majakn]

US press is by no means free. Look at Fox or CNN: they would show only things which are permitted/approved by the government.

This is not at all true. How do you think Edward Snowden was able to leak all of our NSA secrets? How do you think a number of government whistle-blowers that the Obama administration hates were able to leak their information?

they don't leak their information to Fox and CNN

[Eisenhower34]

US press is by no means free. Look at Fox or CNN: they would show only things which are permitted/approved by the government.

This is not at all true. How do you think Edward Snowden was able to leak all of our NSA secrets? How do you think a number of government whistle-blowers that the Obama administration hates were able to leak their information?

they don't leak their information to Fox and CNN

Both fox news and CNN have reported heavily on the snowden leaks. Snowden has leaked the NSA secrets to the Washington Post likely because of it's previous work (likely the watergate scandal).

Both news services have been highly critical of the NSA spying programs