[kahljorn]

Although I generally find it irrelevant to quote materials up to 300 years in referance to current events, I have to agree with geggy a bit here. Whether I agree that newspapers actually make bold faced lies because of the government is another issue.

Anyway, it's not as if there hasn't been a history of governmental (sometimes even religous) interferance in literature, journalism and science-- even up until recently. Perhaps accepting that there is a governmental agenda behind the papers you read would be rather difficult, but it's not really all that improbable. Personally, in modern times, I'd be more likely to condemn the entertainment industry than the government for newspaper inaccuracies.
Still, how often do stories we would find important get burried in a mass of shit beneath pictures of celebraties or why gay people should be banned from public? Why did every other place in the world have that TIME thing on Bush, whereas we had it on celebrity pictures? Again, whether this is entertainment or political pressure is hard to detect-- perhaps it's both.