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I don't know, host. Are many people taking this latest "break" as more than marketing? The few I've spoken to about it today have been skeptical. Even early MSM coverage contained red flags questioning the plausibility. This smells of desperation. I'm slightly relieved if it's the best they can manage.
As for the press mechanisms, I can't argue with your posts. I'm only going by feel here and that's surely affected by my location in Oregon. That said, while the press may be badly broken I do notice many more questions these days, whether outright or between the lines. I'd wager the writers will continue to take the easy briefings and leaks to get ahead, but they don't want to look completely stupid again if the story goes south. They aren't staying on their sources' tracks like they did a couple years ago.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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