The
structures of control within the U.S. media are different from the institutionalized formal censorship we might expect of a government - controlled press; they are
less visible and more subtle, not monolithic yet hierarchical, transmitted to the many by those who work for the few, essentially undemocratic and narrow in perspective, tied to the rich and powerful but not totally immune to the pressures of an agitated public, propagandistic yet sometimes providing hard information that is
intentionally or unintentionally revealing..