I put quotes on "free" press because I was insinuating otherwise, like being limited by the interests of the wealth that controls it.

Before it was destroyed, Biden stated disapproval of the pipeline. Few have the capability to have done it, and journalists won't investigate us if they want to keep their jobs. Who "thoroughly" investigated?

Who has NATO protected? It's just been divisive since the end of the Warsaw Pact and the cold war.