In my opinion Trump has the main media by the balls and they must do as he says, and they are being told to gradually soften up their routine. Along the way everyone will see that their version of reality is bullshit. Then suddenly there will be a unified change of narrative, a complete reversal.   The brainwashed will be dumbfounded but their brainwashing will proceed in the opposite direction. People's perceptions will be completely shattered. This is similar to the situation as I suspect it is with Mueller. Muelller in my opinion is a bond slave to Trump, doing what Trump tells him, when Trump tells him to do it. But he must look like he is still the Deep State legal assassin, their insurance, along with Rosenstein. My reasons for thinking as I do about the media are four.   The CIA-Dem machinery for distributing talking points and propaganda (Mockingbird Media)is known to Trump. He knows who has been doing what. He is unlikely to throw it overboard, it is a sounder strategy to co-opt it and use it for good, rather than evil. He has shown skill in taking the weapons unwittingly provided by the opposition, and I believe he will do this with the Mockingbird machinery.    Since the media is complicit in a lot of bad stuff, the execs and white collar guys are going to cave immediately when faced with the prospect of being lumped in with the traitors on charges of treason. If you are an exec at a network used to your fancy office and fat salary, you aren't going to throw your lot in with Brennan and Comey and Loretta Lynch and the rest. You will holler  "UNCLE!"and turn state's evidence, and do what you are told. You don't have any principles to stand on anyway. Oh and by the way, the government could confiscate your lying treasonous company, and your stockholders wouldn't like that, either.   The other nuclear option Trump has against the media is their BROADCAST LICENSES.   Trump can threaten their ability to broadcast ANYTHING, he could shut them down.   "Look, we know you did X, Y and Z. We can try you for treason AND revoke your license, you sack of shit. But if you do exactly as you are told...."   The fourth reason I believe this is the case was my decode this month of a Trump tweet. I interpreted to tweet to mean that CNN, MSNBC, CBS and ABC had been cracked.   If they go, the rest will follow.