Furthermore, the market is fundamentally about wish-fulfillment and not truth. The mainstream itself is defined by the editors of big media conglomerates and what their market research indicates. The enormous costs associated with big media maintain it as a reserve for the few. Aside from the occasional expose, their interests are generally with their political class, and reporting is subject to their private censorship. Only in an immediate sense does the public usually know what its interests are, and they are typically willing to accept the editor's version of political philosophy, consciously or not.
Few people have a fully formed political philosophy of their own, to which they stubbornly hold.
The result is that one is bombarded with generally consistent political and cultural messages from people whose interests are not the same as the viewer. As important as what is preached on TV every day is that which is ignored. The very fact that those in authority chose to ignore the reports is used as evidence against any such claims. The root of the problem is the issue of the basic source of legitimacy regarding reports. Someone in the field, a journalist or a government officer, sees something and records it in symbols.