Reply #6: Agitprop the People!

[MatrixEscape]

To adopt, initiate, and use newspeak adeptly in the process of forming public opinion = manufacture consent using information gleened from focus groups.

Repeat lies often enough to make them into commonly accepted truth = creating reality, not reporting on it.

To abdicate its primary responsiblity as the guardian and watchdog of Democracy and Freedom.

To replace the tradition of journalism with talking head media whores who can act well, look good, and be boisterous and opinionated.