Right.
That's why we've been burdened with elected dictators for more than 30 years.
Because the press hasn't been free for more than 30 years.
During the 60's and 70's Vietnam War era, we had a free press. Journalists were the most trusted, respected professionals in North America. It was largely journalists responsible for stopping the war and revealing the rotten corruption at the core of the entire establishment.
  But mass corporatization and media concentration in the hands of a few multi-billionaire conglomerates changed everything. The 1% and their servants in the media no longer want the public to know truth about wars and other major trends, like climate change, deteriorating democracy, increasing income inequality, that create our reality of fear, greed, envy, scarcity, and insecurity.
  The press isn't free because even 30-year veteran journalists are prevented from telling the truth by publishers and editors.