Such individuals are threats to corporate oneness and must either be assimilated or erased. This is what happens when so few corporations control the information that affects so many. All thought-provoking material is either altered beyond recognition or diluted until it resembles tapioca pudding. This is your brain on news. This probably sounds like a great idea for a futuristic science fiction novel.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
In We the Media , a short paperback full of articles and mini-essays addressing the growing media empires, editors Don Hazen and Julie Winokur have done an admirable job of assembling a wide variety of opinions from an equally wide variety of sources who all agree on the severity of the problem. Today, instead of a communication system that enlightens the public and speaks truth to power, we have a media system that has become all-powerful itself and threatens to overwhelm democracy in the process. We the Media is far from objective. The editors and contributors are all on the same page. The absence of balance can legitimately be viewed as the book's primary weakness, and perhaps more balance might have provided stronger appeal to the wider audience that needs to hear the message rather than just the converted.