[nkh]

I wondered that initially as well. There are many factors at play:

1. Doing that would juice it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

2.Each of these institutions brands itself on providing quality information, and in the US we pride ourselves on the first amendment. So the brand hit for censoring isn't worth it.

3. Chomsky is/was tenured and couldn't be fired the same way a journalist could

If you look at manufacturing consent, they make it clear that good stuff can get through media. It is just so much harder, and therefore there is less of it overall. But that doesn't mean nothing can get through.

[red-iron-pine]

> If you look at manufacturing consent, they make it clear that good stuff can get through media.

Arguably, the manufacturing only works if 51% or more is generally good stuff. Obviously propaganda outlets don't keep a lot of eyes, e.g. Fox News' viewership has been declining faster than demographics says it should be.

90% can be spot on, entertaining, and wholly or mostly truthful; it's the 10% makes it work.

[fmajid]

How much of Fox' decline is due to their occasionally going against Trump, and firing commentators that go beyond even their pale like Tucker Carlson? They forgot their business is reinforcing confirmation bias (as is all mainstream media, to a large extent, just with different demographics).