Media and change: Expecting the impossible

THE MOST powerful organizations in the world are not governments but corporations, and among the most powerful corporations are the global media conglomerates. Corporations are the power behind even the most powerful governments, whose policies they shape through their influence over the men and women they help elect or otherwise put in power. Their current mantra may be government non-interference and their god the free market. But they nevertheless demand and get tax-payer bailouts when they need them, and expect the  governments they put in power to craft and implement business-friendly policies. They are seldom disappointed.