It worked so well for the USSR.

Official state controlled sources of news promoting the wonderful government achievements and providing somewhat more ‘accurate’ news of world events for the people living under the rule of of the soviets to be fed.

Tass the soviet Government News agency providing officially sanctioned (Sanitized) news release.

Pravda (Truth LoL) was the official organ of the Communist Party.

Izvestia (The News as approvedd officially) A soviet broadsheet providing an official version of news for public consumption.

In the absence of any Digital Media that all ran very well for Lenin Stalin and on through Kruschev, Brezhnev until it came up against electronic information in the age that now exists when the avalanche of other truths slowly brought the all powerful bunch of old men to book and exposed their feet of clay.

Naturally Xi and his thugs who rule the world of CCP and the “news ” as the rulers se fit for public consumption, take serious steps to curtail what seeps out so as what to view is still tightly controlled as they see the danger actual truth might visit on the peasants.

Once upon a time to get a coup to succeed the perpetrators had to get the Radio and Print media under total control even before rounding up those who might not approved as in Politicians and Commercial entities.

The mostly entirely sycophantic media of New Zealand offer no deviation from the wonderful images they portray as to how well Princess Perfidy has things running in the country they wish to be relabeled Aotearoa. Any mild deviation from that issuing from The Podium Of Truth is never challenged or examined and when facts later emerge to perhaps expose serious doubts, it is so long ago it can be ignored or can be buried under another truckload of falsehoods and that ends it.

A veritable shoal of measures are slowly coming on stream to squelch dissenting opinion under the very broad cloak of wokeness and groupthink with an about to be made a weapon of mass destruction under the broad idea of Hate speech law.

If anyone sees this as worthy of even passing discounting, just gather up the many “announcements” and place the current state of what has actually changed.

Oh for sure Barely Sober has gone slightly feral over the Mallard destruction of a parliamentary staffers career that occurred over eighteen months ago. But it is suggested that comes from a long standing relationship to the now destroyed staffer with Soper, that saw BS actually contact that victim, but not from any investigative foray into the suitability of Mallard as Speaker of The House. The Muss still retains a sufficient Teflon coating to prevent ‘food’ sticking. There are also occasional sniper attacks from the odd newsperson or member of the wider public but the totality of the smothering of the dying embers is so complete those isolated dangers ae extinguished before they become a wider conflagration. Oliver Hartwich is one such thinker.

Snipers will never defeat a frontal attack as their fire power is rapidly extinguished. Alas I see nothing on he Horizon to change that.