For the most part you're right. However, the Washington Times has taken it on on more than one occasion, and this is at least the second article I've seen in the Washington Post (and I don't even read it all that often), and Fox did make that special on 'Vanishing Freedoms' (which I have not seen yet). Maybe we should start giving credit where credit IS due (perhaps we could say thank you to some of these reporters who may be going out on a limb to get the word out). My knowledge of history probably wouldn't fill a thimble, but didn't Thomas Paine start a revolution by printing and distributing 'Common Sense'? Printers and Kinko's? There are so many good writers at FReepublic. I wish some of them would get together and come up with some one- or two-page walloping articles (maybe a theme-a-week to get everybody on the same page) for printing and distributing by us FReepers around the country, to get people off the fence.
Articles will happen but those reporters will need some re-education to clear not a few blind spots. One of the best entry angles is to teach them that they have been deliberately misled those with by a corrupt profit interest. When reporters find out that they have been lied to they get really mad. Then we need to give them a place to go with that anger. One needs to build for them a network of people that they can trust, the "go-to guys" without an ax to grind.