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Myth More Important Than Truth
While I agree that at the core self-centered, self-interest motivates the media elites, I also believe that at the conscious level they rationalize their behavior as "in the good of the country." This seems to be the ethos held, and the more strongly expressed the higher up the food chain you go. I first observed this in the media in the 60's in reporting on the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and then later the Vietnam antiwar movement. Without exception dissension on the part of the established media from the political establishment was taboo. Only after the positions held by these movements became accepted by the population at large, and eventually by the power structures, did the media follow suit.