Although not news to most wide-awake people, the author provides evidence to support this argument:
The Fourth Estate has never been under as much pressure in the United States as it has been under the Obama administration.Of course, Obama has nothing or little to do with it. He is merely the chief public relations officer hired by key decision makers of the One Percent--people like Jamie Dimon.
Yes, there are factions within the One Percent--basically two: liberals and conservatives. The former want to slowly turn up the heat on the 99 Percent so that they won't realize that they have been scalded to death (the old boiling frog routine), the latter want to throw the 99 Percent right into the boiling water.