> Never before in human history have we had privately operated for-profit organisations with so much power and influence over the running of countries. Newspap

> Never before in human history have we had privately operated for-profit organisations with so much power and influence over the running of countries. Newspapers have always had this power, the difference now is it's on the internet instead of print. Once TV's became common place the evening news also had this power. This has always been how things worked the difference now is the reach is larger and the turnaround time is faster.