I am still surprised at how many well-read and liberal people don't understand the moniker "The Mouthpiece of Empire". Your use of the term "paper of record" is 'Times washing". Public broadcasters are not much better. They purport to inform, but the questions always stop short of actual conspiracy investigation even as they accuse the lay public of being "The Tinfoil Hat Crowd". The business of America is not televised, so neither was the evolution to fascism.