''You have the freedom to change the channel or not listen.'' is now bordering on fiction and MSM is ither blaring more or less in sync in the same horn or anything out of the politicaly correct is rapidly being censored or banned outright .
In many ways one of likely initialy unintended consequences of politicaly made up shit (Russian medling) that has been going on for past couple of years is now extremely fast spreading censorship and outright propaganda being openly practiced on domesticated sheeple only now in addition to goverments corporations pitched in greatly amplifying the effect.
''Look at what the "fake news" is doing to America with free speech? Do I think it needs limited? No...that's a Right. The whole concept of non linear warfare is to spew so much contrary and stupid shit that people "turn it off" and stop listening so that one can abuse US because we have tuned them out. ''
Wrong ,fake news hysteria is not about them being fake but about established media and goverment gradualy loosing monopoly on reporting +> controling the narrative !!!. Fake news was not considered to be a problem as long it was the offical line . Most of MSM news (outside local stuff) is not gathered by reporters in the field but is little more just a copy paste of a deseminated information
You might think that NDAA , Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act ,Integrity initiative and any other propaganda projects like many of the think tanks that feed the MSM with BS is meant to target foreign elements, that is not the case , its main target are sheeple at home and MSM its shilling out propaganda like newer before.
Another take on the fake news
https://www.theperspective.com/debates/businessandtechnology/fake-news-not-real-problem/