re: If you were in the media, could you be bought?

Bingo. I remember Greenwald retweeted a pretty good self-critique of the media. Whoever the author was just said these people don't want to miss out on the cocktail party circuit. So, it's all kissing each other's arse.

I think there are probably some journalists with integrity, but if you get too close to an uncomfortable truth, the story gets spiked. See what happened to one of the Epstein reporters. The other problem is that at the national level, the media has really become an arm of the intelligence agencies. They don't even hide Operation Mockingbird anymore.