Cathy Vogan, the executive producer of Consortium News' webcast CN Live!, recently coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy.   According to Wikipedia: 

"Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.

The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives."  

William Casey, C.I.A. director under Ronald Reagan, said: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

Thus the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as "the news."