Truly independent media depends on money from small donors. No wonder that it reports from the perspective of the average woman and man against corporate-controlled government agendas at home and abroad. 

With the concentration of Big Media in the hands of a few big corporations, and with Big Media supporting the militarist agenda of governments in pursuit of corporate profits, independent media has never been needed more than today, especially as the pursuit of power and profit has given us genocide and the peril of world war in a nuclear age.

Big Media and Independent Journalism

June 5, 2026

Big Media depends on big money from big corporations. No wonder that it promotes the corporate agenda and the agendas of governments that serve corporate interests.

Please take a stand and donate today to Consortium News, the longest-running independent media organization on the internet. 

John R Moffett
June 6, 2026 at 10:11
I always donate to CN, and greatly appreciate your work. The Corporate-Owned-News (CON) is not worthless, it is dangerous. It is the megaphone for the merchants of death that push the US war agenda. The problem is, many people find the CON to be addictive, and they can’t turn it off. Decades of research and billions of dollars have been put into figuring out how to draw viewers in, and it is working, even on some of my longtime friends. Propaganda works, and that is one of the great problems of our time.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/06/05/big-media-and-independent-journalism/

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