Great list!
Here's a few more things that came to mind.
* Our adoption of the media's sense of values.
WE HAVE ADOPTED THE MEDIA'S VALUES?
The MEDIA are the ones who can't say certain things because it would offend certain people or groups who the media depends on attracting as viewers or listeners or readers. The MEDIA is who would lose by offending the enemies of freedom. But the American people have accepted the media's guidelines and limitations about what can or can't be said and we have internalized those limitations and made them our own. In effect, the media has become our parents and pastors and teachers and arbiters of taste, style, fashion, ethics, mores and what is acceptable socially and politically, at least.
And that is the fault of the media for not pointing out the difference to us between what is their limitation and why and what our limits should be and why. And they keep us in the dark out of a sense of self interest that doesn't necessarily serve the American people all that well.
And it is also OUR fault for not recognizing it.
* The media's reluctance to validly criticize Islamism.
The American people are almost completely uninformed of the existence of Islamist activity and infiltration in America. In a world without any MSM, people would look at their nation in a different way and the evidence that exists to indicate internal Jihadist activity would be much more well known and people would take greater care to become aware of the threat. But because the MSM dare not offend and is too ignorant and pig headed to learn about the nature and goals of Jihad they think that by saying nothing about Islamists they are being enlightened.
We are at the mercy of our media and they are intentionally ignoring Islamism because it's in THEIR interests to do so, but their reluctance to talk about it is not in our interest. And they are not telling us any of this. Because they don't want to lose market share or credibility or advertisers and ad revenue, they don't report negatively on Islamism in America and they don't let us know that they are tip toeing around the subject out of a political correctness.
*Another thing that makes sense only if the MSM is your only news source is the opposition to the government's efforts to keep us safe.
Because they don't understand Jihad and won't bother to learn about it the media presents the government's efforts to keep us safe as infringements on our liberties rather than safeguards, stop loss limiters, to the dangers that come from our intellectual sloth.
Islamists are Muslims but not all Muslims are Islamists.
Islamists are like chess masters and they will outsmart us if we allow them to move without recognizing and countering their moves. They are going to create power centers by increasing the Muslim populations of certain areas and then demanding they be ruled by Islamic judges and Islamic law. The Americans will agree.
And city by city, county by county, state by state, voila.
It's not a matter of fear, it's a matter of being defeated or not and making the right moves early on to prevent their getting the advantage.
It's not a matter of discrimination, it's a matter of recognizing the differences between those who want freedom and those who are the enemies of freedom.
We may not be able to test each Muslim to know their heart, but we can and must prevent the Islamists among them from being able to do what they need to do to achieve their goals.
Things like the Patriot Act are crucial to the government's ability to keep us safe and prevent needless discrimination against innocent Muslims.
Yet the media presents the bill as a danger to our freedoms.
This only makes sense if the MSM is your only news source.