Myself, I always recognized it from Chomsky's old quote about the mainstream media (1993): > Whether they're called 'liberal' or 'conservative,' the major med

Myself, I always recognized it from Chomsky's old quote about the mainstream media (1993): > Whether they're called 'liberal' or 'conservative,' the major media are large corporations, owned by and interlinked with even larger conglomerates. Like other corporations, they sell a product to a market. The market is advertisers — that is, other businesses. The product is audiences.