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Mainstream media is considered the media that comes from traditional or established broadcasting outlets like NBC, FOX, CBS and dozens more, so why do they all sound so similar if they're coming from different places? Funny you should ask my friend. It is because over 90% of mainstream media is controlled by just five companies! The corporations that own most of the media are General Electric, News-Corp, Disney, National Amusements and Time Warner who each own different variations of mainstream media in the forms of television, film, internet, print, music, and even video games. This may not seem like anything of importance but frankly, it should.

With hundreds of ways to digest media being controlled by five companies owned by billionaires seeking to make profits through views more than accurately report the news, it is hard to decipher what news is accurate versus what is being put out to accumulate more views. This isn't to mean that the information coming from these news sources is not credible, rather it is meant to shed light on the importance of understanding that mainstream media outlets were made to make money first, deliver news second. The mainstream news on politics comes from the white house which has 49 seats in the briefing room allowing for 49 people to deliver this news how they see fit, embellishing and removing details that allow them to make the most money by making the news story more interesting than the 48 other media representatives. Of those representatives, there are multiple coming from the same media powerhouses that own all of the big-name media companies, meaning that bias towards conservative news and bias towards progressive news could hypothetically be making one person double the money.

Mainstream media, like all other forms of media, is made to make people money. If you are going to digest this media it is important to acknowledge this before believing everything from every media outlet as fact.