In that case you are going to have to make your point explicit. My understanding is that you are trying to say that the media outlets are not influenced by the government because there exist significant critical stories of the government.
But as I said "The result is a system where people are influenced not to criticise their boss not a system where no one ever does."
I guess I'm just asking why today's story, about NSA spying on Obama, which is viscerally more interesting than the Risen story but less impactful to national security, would be "frozen out" of the mainstream media where Risen's story clearly wasn't.
But as I said "The result is a system where people are influenced not to criticise their boss not a system where no one ever does."