What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

This is an analysis, by Noam Chomsky, of the mainstream media and the framework in which they operate. In short, the analysis leads to an inescapable conclusion:

"... the product of the media, what appears, what doesn’t appear, the way it is slanted, will reflect the interest of the buyers and sellers, the institutions, and the power systems that are around them."
"You virtually never find anything in the social sciences that so strongly supports any conclusion."