How did Julius Ceasar beat the Gauls?
Separately, you haven't read Thomas Hobbs Leviathan have you?
Privately owned networks? Too what privately owned networks are you speaking? You talking about Corporations? The same ones that can be demonstrated to be commonly held by StateStreet, Vanguard, and BlackRock? The sameones revealed by the Church Committee to be infiltrated by the CIA. Congressional record shows JP Morgan and friends had purchased the top papers in the country far the purposes of influencing pupblic opinion favorable to WAR, and on what ever else they can make money. Of course our schools books make little mention of this because our FAITH in our institutions benefits the legacy families and bankers.
Again back to the Gauls and Leviathan.
What you think about an issue as not important, its only that you watch and get told what to think on an issue, division (A or B) is good for THEM.
Since asking someone to dig into ancient history and classic literature of the western canonmmaybe a little bit to high an expectation, here's something from pop-culture
Tom Macdonald
talam Acey in spoken word : True Lies
When it comes to what matters all the networks agree. When the establishmentiis ready ti sling bombs, thay all agree. What ever problem arises that needs a bit bank funded solution, they all agree. They all agree (at least in the agrigate) to not censure or audit the big banks, gotta bail em out. Real journalism is dogged, we don't have bulldogs anymore. Not for the corporate media anyway. They are all repugnant golem mouthpieces for the establishment. Maddow, Hannity, Lemon, all of them, enemies of the people.