📰 Main Claim

The Western media, especially in the U.S., serves the interests of capital and the ruling class, not truth or freedom.

This is visible through:

• Selective reporting
• Corporate censorship
• Political influence
• Historical revisionism
• Propaganda disguised as journalism

🧱 Foundational Framework

🛠️ No Press is Truly Free

• All media is controlled by class interests.

• In capitalist societies, this means the dictatorship of capital dominates the press.

• Quoting Lenin:

  Freedom of the press means freedom to buy newspapers, writers, and shape public opinion for capitalist benefit.

🏢 Media Ownership: Six Giants Rule All

Since the 1996 Telecommunications Act:

• U.S. media consolidation increased drastically:
  • Down from 23 major media owners (1989) to just 6 conglomerates:
    • Time Warner
    • General Electric
    • Viacom
    • Bertelsmann
    • Walt Disney
    • News Corp
• These corporations own:
  • Newspapers
  • TV/radio stations
  • Film studios
  • Record labels
  • Global media networks