[photochemsyn]

The only reason to pay any attention to CNN, USA Today or Forbes is to understand what's on the minds of the corporate oligarchy in the United States. They're just propaganda feeds, the modern version of the tin-horn propaganda blared out by speakers installed in Red Square in Moscow in the 1970s.

This doesn't mean the stories published are false, or even inaccurate - but there's a big negative space in their media coverage. E.g. if culture war issues are amplified, but there are no stories on industrial policy, infrastructure problems, manufacturing job and supply chain analysis - that's deliberate. No, it's not 'what the public wants', it's what the owners of these media outlets want their readers to be thinking about.