In other words, the answer to restoring “trust” and to respecting
“truth” is to hide ugly realities from the unwashed public. If the
people are shielded from the facts, the Establishment will regain its
control over “truth” and thus win back the people’s “trust.”
If all this seems upside-down to you – if you think that the real
answer is for America’s leaders to behave more responsibly, to let the
public in on the real “truth,” and thus to make the people’s “trust”
mean something – you must be a “Kremlin stooge.” After all, the current
groupthink is that the diabolical Russians slipped WikiLeaks those
Democratic emails in a nefarious plot to undermine Americans’ faith in
their democracy.
However, if you’re still having trouble with Friedman’s logic, you
also must not understand how America’s new media paradigm works. The job
of the media is not to provide as much meaningful information as
possible to the people so they can exercise their free judgment; it is
to package certain information in a way to guide the people to a
preferred conclusion.
-- Robert Parry, "Policing 'Truth' to Restore 'Trust'" (CONSORTIUM NEWS).