The Mass media (n.) is huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations which sell audiences to other businesses via advertisements. So when you turn on the television set, you are the product that they're selling.
The Mass media (n.) are not there to inform the 85 percent but to get rid of them — sitcoms, sex, football and three-headed babies, so they won't interfere with decisions.
Mass media (n.) jump up and bark in concert whenever any White House snaps its fingers.
The Mass media (n.) amuse, entertain and inform — and fit people into the institutions of their society; in a world of concentrated wealth and class conflict, that job requires systematic propaganda.
Mass media (n.) do serve a societal purpose, but not that of informing citizens: their purpose is to inculcate and defend the agenda of the privileged.
Mass media (n.) are almost 100 percent state capitalist in America — a mirror image of Pravda, without a single socialist commentator.
Mass media (n.) are capitalist institutions in a capitalist society; that they reflect dominant economic interests is no more surprising than finding no socialist on General Motors' board.