> 6 Companies Control Your Perception

As demonstrated in Robin Williams' "Good Morning Vietnam", the information allowed to be reported as shown to journalists, anchors, and investigators is tightly censored and controlled from the top (especially the CIA). The government simply has to use the magic words "National Security" to justify redaction of facts on any scale. For example, one person or even a small handful of individuals in charge of a given media conglomerate will supply every department at CNN with a given narrative or set of filtered facts, and that is what will be reported regardless of the integrity of the journalists (because they simply won't be given the truth). Even if an honest reporter discovers facts that challenge the given narrative, these findings must be approved by management (ultimately the government) for public airing - those who push the envelope don't keep their jobs long, and won't get far with any attempts at telling the truth since these same media companies won't give them an audience. These six companies reveal a surprisingly small chain of command in place, allowing mass perception to be manipulated with ease. This concept is not unique to the United States however, as the same issues (often with even less people to control at the top) plague developed media across all countries.