Aaron McGruder: People consistently underestimate today is how the nature of mass media has transformed society. 10 people control 90% of everything you see, read, and hear in this country. 10 people. And they want to tell you that Cuba has state-run media. 10 people. Who are those 10 people? Well, you can look em up. They're not hard to find. That in and of itself is problematic when you consider that these 10 people all need permission from the US government in order to have licenses in order to buy other corporations in order to do all the nefarious things they like to do we live in a completely different era where information is more tightly controlled than it has ever been in the history of this country when we're on the verge of the Iraq war no actually after the Iraq war started some 400,000 people march in New York City and they don't even get on the news first thing to remember is that What drives this country is money and profit. Generally, most things that are going down today are going down because of money and profit. Absolutely. The wars, the peace, stocks, and every single TV show you watch. Believe me, what you see on television, when you turn on CNN and you turn on MSNBC, that's entertainment. Is what people try to suppress. News is what they do not want you to know. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3989