Every morning before the hard working citizens of the United States of America get into their over priced vehicles, filled with over priced gasoline, to go to their jobs all day in order to support themselves and their families, they usually turn on the television or open up their morning newspaper in order to find out the happenings of their community, country, and the world. What many of them do not know is that everything that is being said or written in the news is the same thing that every other American is going to hear or read that same morning. The news the same everywhere? H

The United States government and the large media companies walk together hand in hand because of a great bond they share. The money of American citizens. Without this money politicians could never get into office, and these media giants could never exist. Politicians can only run for political office if they have enough money to campaign and win over the hearts of millions of American voters. “Therefore, logically, politics will be dominated by the rich and powerful -- in fact if not in theory -- since only the rich can afford to run and only parties supported by the wealthy will gain enough funds and favorable press coverage to have a chance” (“What influence does wealth have over politics?”). When politicians need more money for their campaigns they turn to media giants to donate the money and the press coverage that they need in order to win over many Americans in the polls. "The inappropriate fit between the country's major media and the country's political system has starved voters of relevant information, leaving them at the mercy of paid political propaganda that is close to meaningless and often worse. It has eroded the central requirement of a democracy that those who are governed give not only their consent but their informed consent"(Ben Bagdikian, pg. 192).

In all aspects the entire market system is unfair in every imaginable way, even though the heads of the corporations and the government do not admit to that at all. McChesney states that, “In truth, this is what a defense of the market system in terms of fairness boils down to: new firms can start and they can become giants, and to do so they probably have to do something quite remarkable, or be very lucky. All it means is that the system holds open the slightest possibility of a nonwealthy person becoming a multimillionaire, that success is extremely difficult to attain in this manner, and that the hope of being rich will drive countless people to their wit’s end” (McChesney, 141). So basically the giants of the system give the little people a ray of hope that they will indeed make it in the system, even though eventually they will just be shut down or bought up by one of the giants. So we have millions of American citizens who need to go to work in order to spend their hard earned money on products being advertised to them out of fear. How are they supposed to make this money if they don’t have a job? Many Americans are losing their jobs because conglomerate companies keep becoming larger and larger and begin

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