The Fourth of July, the American media and the plutocracy

To commemorate the Fourth of July, I enjoy watching two movies back-to-back: first 2017's " The Post " which recounts the fight over the Washington Post's publication of the Pentagon Papers , and then 1976's " All the President's Men " which continues the chronological story of the government versus the press in the scandal called Watergate . It's bittersweet, since these movies are about the…