The Rupert-British government scandal is revealing what many on the left have been arguing for years: the close integration of right-wing media with the ruling capitalist elites: to sustain and promote the interests of that class. In other words, mainstream media is an indispensable propaganda organ of the governing class and used to manage the minds of working people
The illusion of pluralism in corporate-dominated democracies is promoted by the media, like mainstream parties, having a spectrum of opinions but none which question corporate rule.