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According to my Surry living Irish cousin, it is because the state run media refuses to report or downplays any event that makes the government look bad. I had a friend in Luxembourg that worked broadcasting English radio into GB to bypass the censorship of the BBC.
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Inoculation: I'm not defending the MSM, but is what the MSM does any different than what a sales associate does (or does not)?
A used car salesman (for one example) will rarely-ever (if ever) intentionally say or do anything that would or could discourage a potential buyer, from buying a car.
The MSM practices the same skill; they rarely (if ever) say or show anything that will work against their agenda.
The MSM should be a "public trust" entity; but it is anything-but.
A widely-circulated paper (PDF) on a CIA recruitment tool known as MICE to RASCALS vividly illustrates how to steer a person in the desired direction; it occurs to me those skills are widely used...