Jesus H. Christ! It has to be a liberal conspiracy or a conservative conspiracy, yeah? Can't some of you morons get beyond that? Obviously you cannot.
I can't think of anything more ironic than partisans worried about the loss of free speech. It's incredible when you think about it.
The 4th Estate is damn near dead in America. And it didn't just recently occur. There have been volumes written on the subject. There are college classes on the subject. This isn't anything new. It damn sure isn't a single party conspiracy. It transcends both parties and even the White House in some cases. The information is there if you actually want to be informed. In the past "What if" and I have started 3 or 4 threads about it and only a few here have participated. Point is, the public has been manipulated by the government through the Press and with the 4th Estate's cooperation for a very long time.
As an example here's an extremely interesting article no one will read.
The CIA and the Media.
If you want information closer to the truth than what you are getting now:
1. Stop watching US network news! Any of it. Stop it. It isn't news. It is propagandized entertainment that has been tarted up as news. Stop it. Don't do it anymore, at all.
2. Stop listening to radio talk shows. See above. Stop it forever.
3. Read the Christian Science Monitor. You can read it online. It continues to be recognized as the least politicized, most balanced newspaper in the U.S.
4. Read papers like The Guardian UK. There is an online version for the US. You'll find much in there everyday about the U.S. that you won't find in U.S. news sources.
5. Read varied internet sources OF DIFFERENT POLITICAL PERSUASIONS. Compare the information you find with sources of an opposing lean. Truthdig vs. Breitbart.
6. Practice deductive reasoning. It is the greatest protection any individual can have in Age of Information. Be diligent and think critically.
7. Stop believing things because you want them to be true.
8. Stop depending on others to do the work for you. Washington can't and won't protect the truth in your behalf. They simply want you to think they are. Ignore the bastards.
9. If you are a partisan at least stop depending on your party to get you all the unfettered truth, all the time. They won't. You should know better than to trust them.
10. Even practicing all of the above, and more, you will still be duped from time to time, but
much less often.