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Posted this to the Post's media critic Howard Kurtz, but I suspect he won't chose it.
"You lost me at corporate-owned media" - why? I don't think that there's some secret star chamber of corporate executives deciding the news for the day. But at the same time, media ownership has been remarkably concentrated into the hands of a tiny number of large corporations - and many journalists have admitted to self-censoring to please their bosses.
You might want to read "Into the Buzzsaw", which has some fascinating first-person accounts of journalists (both famous and obscure) discovering that covering stories that displease or embarrass the management of the corporations that own them is a sure-fire career-killer.
It's a disservice to your role as a media analyst to simply dismiss the effects of corporate ownership and the concentration of media control.