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Here's the documented answer. https://leftdiary.com/posts/who-owns-the-media 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.7 https://leftdiary.com/images/cover_pages/media-ownership-cover.jpg Who Owns the Media? Six companies control roughly 90% of US media. In the UK, three men own most of the national press. Noam Chomsky called it Manufacturing Consent. Here's how media ownership shapes what you think is possible — not through censorship, but through what never gets framed as a serious idea. https://leftdiary.com/posts/what-happened-to-the-left 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.7 https://leftdiary.com/images/cover_pages/left-history-cover.jpg What Happened to the Left? In 1945, Labour won the most decisive election victory in British history and built the NHS. In 1981, Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers — and union membership began a collapse that hasn't stopped. Here's how the most powerful labor movement in history was defeated, and what was used to defeat it.