Mainstream news organizations in America are nothing more than propaganda outlets for the One Percent.

The US is currently ranked a lowly 46th on press freedoms in the most recent ‘Press Freedom Index‘ according to the organization Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres). RSF is the world’s most respected press freedom organization. Their mission is to work with the media, political leaders, non-government groups and the public to further the cause of press freedom around the world. If you want real freedom of the press, move to Scandinavia.

The top three countries are Finland, The Netherlands and Norway.

In America, only five huge corporations – Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Bertelsmann A.G. and Viacom now control all of the media industry. General Electric, which owns NBC (aside from being one of the nation‘s largest defense contractors), is a close sixth. This concentration of media ownership into the hands of such a tiny minority of dangerous sociopaths is clearly detrimental to a free, democratic society – especially when it comes to what is considered newsworthy and what is not.

When the bottom line is making shareholders happy rather than keeping the public informed, there’s no incentive for these mega-corporations to provide any real creative investigative reporting or controversial content. Their goal is to actively suppress it. There can never be world peace if the weapons makers are in control of the world’s economy.

The Fairness Doctrine was a policy introduced in 1949 by the US Federal Communications Commission that required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance to consumers, and to do so in a manner that was in the Commission’s view, “honest, equitable and balanced.”

Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, and in August of 2011 the FCC formally removed all of the language that legally implemented it.

That pretty much put the last nail in the coffin of ‘fair and balanced’ news in America.