The media are controlled by...their commmercial sponsors. The government is controlled by exactly that same group of people. You don't get a chance to vote for them, just for their chosen mouthpieces. It's a self-perpetuating system, kind of like the British monarchy was back in 1775, only it's far more subtle and less visible...in the human sense. But it is visible and audible 24 hours a day if you have the eyes to see it and the ears to hear, parading itself before you in a constant barrage of advertising, sensationalistic "news", and vapid "entertainment". Gotta keep the serfs happy...

Thus did Imperial Rome befuddle and distract the comman masses, whilst catering to the whims of egomaniacs, pedophiles and madmen...from Nero and Caligula on down.

- LH