A way must be found to bring democracy to the USA, and before that happens they will need decent media.
Five corporations (AOL Time Warner, Disney, News Corp, Viacom, Bertelsmann) control pretty much the totality of US media. TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, everything. If you want to say something, chances are you can only reach a very small number of people without going through them (even if you have money like MoveOn.org, since many of their ads are rejected by the networks). By definition corporations and individuals that are swimming in $billions$ tend to be very conservative and put their bottom line before that vile concept of "common good", so it's not surprising that as a media monopoly is created (from 5 independent newspaper per city in 1900, to 53 corporations controlling it all in the 1980s, to 5 corps working as a cartel now), the social and political discourse in the US is shifting way to the right.
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