Reply #14: "It IS possible to fool all the people all the time -

[Minstrel Boy]

when government and press cooperate."

This is how Gary Webb ("Dark Alliance") closes his essay in Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press:

"Back in 1938, when fascism was sweeping Europe, legendary investigative reporter George Seldes observed (in his book, The Lords of the Press) that 'it is possible to fool all the people all the time - when government and press cooperate.' Unfortunately, we have reached that point."

And of course, under fascism - corporatism - cooperation is too soft a word for it.