Over the last few decades US media has been consolidated into a small number of corporations: newspapers, television stations, radio, social media, are all dominated by large conglomerates that control everything you see and hear. They are vulnerable to political influence: the FCC can remove broadcast licenses.
Most U.S. media is corporate and
increasingly concentrated. Wire services, provide choke
points at which reality can be altered easily. For some of the
problems see the media page.