crumbling Freedom of the Press too divisive to discuss?

So fake news sucks, but government selectively blocking access to public news agencies is worse.

Ken M, please do not project your own thoughts onto me.
Unlike modern liberals I value freedom and am concerned about establishment of a totalitarian state similar to what already been done by lefties in Russia and China.

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
― George Orwell

“You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Last week, after Spicer became aware that information had leaked out of a planning meeting with about a dozen of his communications staffers, he reconvened the group in his office to express his frustration over the number of private conversations and meetings that were showing up in unflattering news stories, according to sources in the room.

Upon entering Spicer’s office for what one person briefed on the gathering described as “an emergency meeting,” staffers were told to dump their phones on a table for a “phone check," to prove they had nothing to hide.

Spicer, who consulted with White House counsel Don McGahn before calling the meeting, was accompanied by White House lawyers in the room, according to multiple sources.

There, he explicitly warned staffers that using texting apps like Confide — an encrypted and screenshot-protected messaging app that automatically deletes texts after they are sent — and Signal, another encrypted messaging system, was a violation of the Presidential Records Act, according to multiple sources in the room.

The phone checks included whatever electronics staffers were carrying when they were summoned to the unexpected follow-up meeting, including government-issued and personal cellphones.

You believe the Russian nonsense despite the fact no evidence to support the claims has been provided. What makes trumps claims any different?

fact that our MSM is not only at least 50% fabrication

but is a mind and thought control device