Follow the money and one can understand the world, particularly the media world. With the pharmaceutical industry providing 70% of Big Media’s advertising revenue (e.g. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX), no wonder they cannot produce an intellectually honest piece on the dangers of our children’s vaccine schedule, or factory farms producing meat contaminated by hormones and antibiotics, or pesticides like Round-up that shrink the honeybee population and cause human cancer, or untested GMOs contaminating our food supply. Due to the collusion of Pharma and the chemical, medical, food, and media industries, journalists who try to do investigative work in these areas get fired fast. Whole government agencies are led by officials who used to be executives of these very industries. Too many of these officials are corrupt. Congress is often are bought off by the same lobbyists from the suspect industries. Rather than being part of the solution, Big Media is a large part of the problem, which is why their standing among an increasing number of Americans is declining. Changing the financial incentives for journalists to encourage honest investigative reporting will likely become a major issue this year. Thanks, Sean Blanda, for your insightful article.