while consolidation today is only really comparable to the gilded age, moneyed interests were certainly in control of the media even then. Take Hearst, for instance, a paper and media mogul who pushed to criminalize cannabis to protect his investments:
https://theconversation.com/re-criminalizing-cannabis-is-worse-than-1930s-reefer-madness-89821
Today, on top of Golded Age levels of inequality, we also have centralized social media monopolies algorithmically manipulating the masses, along with bots etc to manufacture consensus.
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