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Roughly 95% of the mainstream media outlets in this country are owned by 5 companies.
Clear Channel forbid any dissenting views on the Iraq War from being spoken on the air and anti-war songs were not played on any of their radio stations.

For the first four years of the Bush Presidency, only pre-approved questions submitted at least 24 hours in advance were answered.

"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change." -David Barsamian

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." -Noam Chomsky