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Corporate media

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Corporate media is media which is controlled by for-profit corporations, which tend to promote the interests of the capitalist (imperialist) class.[1][2] It is one component of the bourgeois media, which also includes the state media of imperialist countries, such as the imperialist UK's BBC, or puppet state gulf monarchies' Al Jazeera.

In the United States in particular, 95% of broadcast media is owned by only 6 companies.[3]

Support for war

As US General Smedly Butler said, War is a Racket. The corporations that own the media are usually the beneficiaries of this racket, either directly through investments, or indirectly through the economic activity as a result of imperialist war.[4][5][6]

Attacks against progressive candidates

Despite the fact that many "progressives" are merely social democrats who do not challenge the system of capitalism, they're still attacked by the corporate media for threatening the reign of corporations over society, no matter how mild their reforms.[7][8][9]

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