Simply put, that Hillary was odious to a large swath of the American public was not the cause of her losing the election–it was the darn Russkies who wanted Mr. Trump to win because he was going to deliver the world to the Kremlin. The media itself has always sought to influence public opinion, based on the views of the owners of the media outlet, and the US government has long sought to present its policies and actions in a positive light via efforts to control or influence what the media produces as “news,” “commentary” and “facts.” Thus the yellow journalism of the late 19th century helped instigate the Spanish-American War of 1898 (a splendid little war by these accounts) and in the 1960s, the government promoted the notion (undermined by the Pentagon Papers, hence the freakout when those were released to the public) the Vietnam War was not only winnable, but the light at the end of the tunnel was now visible.
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Published at: 2025-08-02 19:00:00
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