I think it's better to think of both the state and the media as arenas in which political battle is waged. US corporate media is not literally state media, but

I think it's better to think of both the state and the media as arenas in which political battle is waged. US corporate media is not literally state media, but they are both controlled by the same political forces that currently dominate the US. Wikipedia calls this the "state-as-venue" view.