Then suppose we crossed another line and said that these repressive arrangements would not prevail were it not for generous military aid from the United States, and that for almost thirty years the homicidal Indonesian military has been financed, armed, advised, and trained by the U.S. national security state. Such a story would be even more unlikely to appear in the liberal press but it is still issue-specific and safely without an overall class analysis, so it might well make its way into left-liberal opinion publications like the Nation and the Progressive.
It is not necessarily true that the media presents facts incorrectly, but more often that key facts are omitted. In the cases where the facts are fully reported, the event is made to look idiosyncratic in absence of class analysis.
