[rfp1234]

Protecting, rather than exposing, the secrets of the powerful is the fuel of American journalism. That's how they maintain their access to and good relations with those in power.

Exactly. CNN covered up for Saddam Hussein's atrocities in the 1990s, to keep their Baghdad bureau open.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

And the New York Times reporter in the 1930s helped conceal the truth about the mass starvations of people in the USSR for the exact same reason.