We have no popular control over our media technologies, and because we lack control over our media, we cannot enrich and advance our lives. Since media has slipped into the private sector, the values of democracy that are inherent in its essence are substituted for the capitalist value of profit. The modes of capitalism are much different than the modes of democracy. It is this single view of the world and the extremities that the private sector controls, that will lead to the demise of democracy. Currently both of these opposing systems are existing together, but one is winning.
Capitalism is that victor.
This, is clearly against the essence of democracy. Historically, media has taken many forms. It started with the mouth as a version of debate or lecture in a public setting, print in newspapers and magazines, the radio, where a voice can be received over vast distances, the television where like the radio a voice can be heard but now that voice can also be seen. On the internet one can communicate by letters, print, audio and even video. All of this is done instantaneously, where there can even be instantaneous reply and debate.