“It’s amazing how much influence broadcast media has over us, isn’t it?”
There’s a reason 95% of all media and United States is owned by less than six corporations. Big-money knows that there’s big money in controlling the masses. Americans need to pass some laws where broadcasters cannot be owned by conglomerates like GE and Disney and cannot be foreign owned period.
The Indianapolis Star underwent a neck snapping change of direction: from being a Conservative voice in Indiana for decades; to a shrill liberal one with the advent of being Borged into the Gannett malestrom.
Gannett Company owns over 100 daily newspapers, and nearly 1,000 weekly newspapers. These operations are in 43 U.S. states and six countries.