Newspapers and media sources are still very much the same today as they were in Jefferson's time. Many of them blantantly support one party or the other, or are outright owned by prominant figures in said parties.
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"It goes back to the Pentagon Papers. The media cannot be trusted with information, so it is better to give them no information. At least until we know exactly what happened and can give them an accurate account."
Maybe you should think about that one a little. A controlled press is one of the necessities for a dictatorship to survive.
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The newspaper
stole sensitive data and printed it. Today, if a reporter could somehow get a hold of a battle plan for our troops in Iraq and show it on tv-they would do it. It's that type of attitude that requires the military to not let
anything leak to the press. The press fucked themselves.