这些行为受到对最后的关键制度 — — 新闻自由的攻击的助推，目前，新闻媒体面对政府唯我独尊的权力噤若寒蝉，更不用说政府赤裸裸的恐吓和选择主流媒体的行为了。
Such behavior is being facilitated by an assault on a final critical institution: the free press, which now seems largely to have been cowed by the government’s overweening power, not to mention its explicit intimidation and co-opting of mainstream outlets.