Just 38 years ago, there were 50 companies in charge of most American media. Now, 90% of the media in the United States is controlled by just six corporations: AT&T, CBS, Comcast, Disney, Newscorp and Viacom. This means that just 232 media executives are calling the shots for the vast majority of the information we are presented with as a society.

Let that sink in.

And remember media bias and polarization is presented as a broad conflict that can’t be managed and is out of control to the point of causing extremism.

Consolidation of platforms and reach is much greater in the tech side of the arena.

Then there is the consolidation of independent media on tech company platforms like YouTube. If they ban someone, are they really running off to make a living on Rumble? No.

There are only 11 independent investigative journalism groups like ProPublica and The Center For Public Integrity but they are a shadow of their formers selves.

https://civilination.org/resources/investigative-journalism-...

You can check all the information sources you want, but primary source information means very little when the landscape lacks real diversity and the only substantive public oversight is underfunded or politically connected.

And then, there’s the research that shows fact-checker bias:

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-fact-checkers-tend-validity-ne...