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I was just referencing newspapers. It is easy to study newspapers and their articles throughout history to see the bias they had because of who owned them. This can help inform us to how modern media is ran.
My wife studied broadcasting in college and I am acutely aware that all media stories come from a few select sources. The control is very real and there is shockingly little independence.
Fair enough. I remember Chomsky talking about how lively print media used to be (when he was younger, or something his parents told him about). I wonder what that would have been like. By the time I started reading any papers, it was already dominated by things like McClatchy...and hasn't gotten any better with time. WSJ was already radically right wing, at least on its op-ed pages but as Chomsky pointed out, they had to report mostly straight news as it pertained to business interests, because of who their audience mostly was - they need actual reliable information to run this system. Then Murdoch bought them. I doubt it got any better.
And then there is WashPo and NYT, supposedly the most liberal of liberal rags. I don't ever remember a time when that was true of either.
I remember years of being told about left mainstream media. Like a mythical beast I have never seen it.
There was a lot more independence with journalism in the past, but it was also always tightly controlled.
I was around back when Bush senior took the presidency and all the media fell in line that it was not okay to criticize the President. There were of course exceptions, but for the most part it was clear dissent was no longer a real option.
I think Goodnight and Good luck is a great critical film to see how going back before I was even born that journalism had already been brought and paid for. Independence was always an illusion.