Quick, go to the mainstream news ...

... pick any source:

TV
Newspaper
Internet
Radio
Magazine
whatever ...

Think mainstream, like

ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN
NY Times, Washington Post
Yahoo News/Google News
NPR/Talk radio
Newsweek/Time
whatever ...

Now, how many of these stories do you see there?

Six Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Were Buried So Big Pharma Could Make Money

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet | Report    

 

The Toxic Chemical Spill Crisis in West Virginia Will Happen Again. Here's Why

By Dennis Trainor Jr, Popular Resistance | Video Report    

 

Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance

By Kara Brandeisky, ProPublica | News Analysis

Five Criticisms of Obama's NSA Speech

By Kevin Mathews, Care2 | News Analysis    

 

BP Employees, Outraged by Lack of Compensation, Warn Oil Spill Victims

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report    

 

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Forbes 400 Are as Rich as All US African-Americans, and More

By Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program | Video Report    

Children Burned With Cigarettes by Israeli Soldiers in Illegal Settlement

By Nora Barrows-Friedman , The Electronic Intifada | Report    

 

Go ahead, check. Seriously, do it.

 

I bet you won't find any.

 

Why not?

 

Read the material on corporate ownership of the media. If they don't want you to know it or don't feel it is profitable to show it, it will not be there. It is that simple.