[antihipocrat]

News media are private businesses. Control the flow of money or buy the business and you control the narrative.

It's well known that advertising dollars influence decisions, and it's also well known that western news media is owned by only a few huge companies that often are advertising subsidiary companies on the same platform.

[corethree]

Right but a lot of the reporting in the US isn't done to serve business interests. There is something else at play here.

Litigation and defamation is probably one aspect of the control.