This article does a very good job of illustrating how corporate media protects the system that feeds it. Hence, it is clear that the system's beneficiaries know that controlling the minds of ordinary people is of great importance. This is the kind of information people need to begin to arm themselves against such propaganda and to seek independent sources of information.
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.
