anti-sjw-rosequartz:

In America, gas and oil companies like to buy ad space where people go to get news about current events related to their industries, so that their propaganda is given an sense of legitimacy.

If you turn on CNN at any given time, there will most likely be a commercial playing that goes “get the real facts about fracking” pointing you to frackingiscoolandgood.com

This happens because the media is privately owned and those owners will sell to the person with the biggest sack of cash the ability to feed the public whatever info they want. The work of people to champion the concept of “journalistic integrity” (whether or not they truly believe in it or see it as an opportunity to solidify power) means that people will consume this media without critical thinking, and has effectively turned Truth into a commodity that can be bought and sold