Media McCarthyism

 1. Exclude elite-disapproved information and views from a country's elite-owned, state source-dependent major media.

2. Now creative a threat narrative by labeling the only news source with comparable resources that offers alternative information "foreign state media."

3. Use the threat narrative to discount the alternative information as "foreign propaganda." Presto!

This is how McCarthyism works.

https://www.rt.com/usa/490860-yahoo-correspondent-ruptly-livestream