I believe that the government is encouraging media monopolies in the US. It's obviously infinitely easier to work with a few dependent giant media corps than trying to play a bunch of competitive outlets against each other to get your message out. You can literally just flood the few giant media companies with your own staff; just route their government paycheck through Raytheon (as a "consultant") or promise them they'll be able to retire from media to a lazy job in higher education as the Harriet Foundation Endowment Chair at the Council for Democratic Innovation at Harvard. Internet media companies are filling up with ex-intelligence agency employees.