The authors Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly imbedded in the market system, it reflects the class values and concerns of its owners and advertisers. These filters limit what will become news in society and set parameters on acceptable coverage of daily events. The danger of these filters is that they produce subtle and indirect forms of censorship which are all the more difficult to combat. Owners and managers share class identity with the powerful and are motivated economically to please advertisers and viewers. Journalists and editors are not immune to the influence of owners and managers.
Independence is restricted.
And the filtering process is hidden and often denied, or rationalized away. Time Warner are massive bureaucratic organizations that function like all other bureaucracies. Survival into perpetuity and ever-increasing profits are logical and necessary measures of their success. Corporations have evolved to work in exactly this way. Employees who continually clash with the corporate culture are gradually weeded out.