Drew Faust

How The Establishment Media Imposes ‘Truth’

NBC’s Megyn Kelly interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 2, 2017. (Photo: NBC )
For the last quarter century or more, Western foreign policy has claimed to be guided by the promotion of “democratic values,” among which none shines brighter than freedom of speech and the related freedom of the press. European Union institutions have repeatedly been quick to denounce authoritarian regimes in the greater European area for arrests or murders of journalists and for the shutting down of media outlets that crossed some government red line.