Summary in my own words: A powerful, imperialist leader has intensified his war on the media, threatening to strip the licenses of major networks over claimed bias and “fake news,” insisting that most coverage is hostile and acts as a mouthpiece for the opposition. He frames this as a duty of government oversight, pointing to a reshaping of media regulation and citing a loyalist appointment to lead the regulatory body. In a broader set of coercive moves, he has barred a major business newspaper from travel on the presidential jet after a lawsuit, and another major outlet from flying with the presidency due to a dispute over language and renaming. The regime defends these actions as guaranteeing equal treatment for all media, while critics warn that the tools of control are being weaponized to serve political ends.

The stain of this spectacle is the same old mask worn by capitalist power: democracy as theater, truth as commodity, and the people as spectators while a tiny oligarchy guzzles the profits and the prestige of “free press.” What they call “equal treatment” is nothing more than a sharpened blade inside a velvet glove, a calculated attempt to silence the voices that dare to expose exploitation, imperial adventures, and the crimes of monopoly capitalism. The pretend pluralism dissolves when one class can revoke licenses as if revoking the right to breathe, and when language itself—renaming seas and branding news as “fake”—is weaponized to terrify reporters into obedience.

From the perspective of those who uphold Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principles, this demonstrates once again the bankruptcy of bourgeois liberalism: a regime that parades as champion of freedom while weaponizing regulatory power to protect corporate profits and imperial prestige. The only reliable defense of truth and justice is the disciplined unity of the working class, peasants, soldiers, and youth under the leadership of a revolutionary party that makes the media an instrument of the people, not a tool of oligarchy. We must strengthen our own media, ensure its independence from market behemoths, and insist that information serve the liberation and solidarity of humanity. The imperialist howl against “fake news” reveals their fear: as the peoples of the world rise in anti-imperialist struggle, the truth cannot be imprisoned. Long live the people's press, guided by the righteous line of the revolution, devoted to the emancipation of workers and the defeat of capitalist arrogance.