Just watching CNN reporting the death of Billy Graham.

What a lot of wailing about his great influence on the Republicans, evangelicals, conservative social and moral thinking, oh it's just been wonderful, and what a giant had passed, oh and his hey day in the 60s-90s and you can't overstate the impact of this man. Yes, he was friends with Nixon, who turned out a crook, and didn't call that out, oh that's nothing compared to his impact...

And this is CNN. While we have Trump in the Oval Office, an outcome of the right wing Christian corruption of the Republican Party, a direct result of the evangelical right wing movement. Can any mainstream media in the US ever criticise anything about America? The wars, the budget, the military industrial complex, religion? Apparently not.

Noam Chomsky is right: US media = manufactured consent and dissent.

And by the way, I notice CNN falls all over the Catholic Church too, interviews with Catholic mouth pieces and such, never a hint about the scandals and abuse issues.