Are you aware that there is more than one journalist in America? Some are for censorship and oppression, some are against. Don't act like they're all some sort of hypocritical hivemind.
Stepping back from the liberal imagination that we are all self-actualizing, free individuals, it's easy to see how journalists function within society and the economy according to class politics.
Just look at how American media & technology companies all shut down Alex Jones:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070403153921/http://65.109.167...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War
Stepping back from the liberal imagination that we are all self-actualizing, free individuals, it's easy to see how journalists function within society and the economy according to class politics.
Just look at how American media & technology companies all shut down Alex Jones:
* https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/6/17656840/alex-jones-infowa...
American elites have been clamoring for corporate and state censorship for years.