Like Price, Miller has had extensive prior involvement in both the US government and the mass media; Price is a former CIA officer and Obama administration National Security Council staffer who for years worked as an NBC News analyst, while Miller has previously had roles in both the Obama and Biden administrations and spent years as an analyst for MSNBC. Like every high-level government spokesperson, Miller's job will be to spin the nefarious things the US empire does in a positive light and deflect inconvenient questions with weasel-worded non-answers.
At the highest levels of the world's most powerful government and the world's most influential media platforms the line between media and state is effectively nonexistent; people flow seamlessly between roles in the media and roles in the government depending on who's in office.
Without any clear lines between the media and the state, US media are not meaningfully different from the state media the west spends so much energy decrying in "Tyrannical regimes" like Russia and China.
As we discussed recently, NPR receives funding from the US government, consistently promotes the information interests of the US government, and is run by the former CEO of the US government's foreign propaganda network US Agency for Global Media.
Everywhere you look you can find extensive entanglements between the US government and the news media outlets that westerners look to for information about the world, and that's before you even get into the way the plutocratic class which owns and influences the US media is also not meaningfully separate from the US government.
When corporations are part of the government, corporate media is state media.
It seems a safe bet that the US would be a completely different country if separation of media and state and separation of corporation and state were enshrined like the separation of church and state is.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/04/no_author/the-us-could-use-some-separation-of-media-and-state/
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