Main stream media are the media who used Assange's stories when it became clear they couldn't ignore them; then helped to smear him while ignoring his torture and a long list of disproportionate and illegal actions against him.
You can call them scumbag media, billionaire media, or tool of the warmongers media; but pre-judging people who use the term "main stream media" means you have chosen the side of the opulent oppressor, and willingly put up a wall of ignorance for yourself. Seems dumb, especially on a thread discussing this story of all stories.
"main stream media" is also a radical right calling card. There are nothing good that comes out of using MSM and assorted catch phrases.
Big fan of Chomsky, but his usage of the term mainstream media is not what that term has been co-opted to mean by some of the various forces he has, and is, warning us about.
Mainstream media was a thing way before it being co-opted by the far-right. And I really dislike the idea of having to update my vocabulary because a pack of morons decided to abuse the term.
Mainstream media is the media that is mainstream. I don't give a flying fuck if the GOP decide it means only corporate "left" media.
'Socialism', 'liberal', 'terrorist', 'torture', etc... Allowing brainwashed loons and their puppeteers to decide what words mean is a mug's game, and I suggest you stop playing.
I prejudge people who drop the n-word in casual conversation.
I prejudge people who use terms like "SJW" or "woke".
And, yes, I prejudge people who use "main stream media".