Well that is just the it of it.....as you said..... "Our own media control efforts on our own public are what drives most American public opinion."...
...and the public is accustomed to being spoon fed rather than to seek what the rest of the world is reporting and make up their own mind on what is or not reality....they simply do not have the time...and the people with the agendas know this all too well.
We know massive corporations dominate the U.S. media landscape, both foreign and domestic, and through a history of mergers and acquisitions have concentrated their 'control' over what we see, hear and read.
Then you have the giants like Apple, Facebook and Google slowly reconstituting the Internet and the control of information while they try to steer us to their increasingly closed versions politically and otherwise.
