More Media Money Motivation

Following up on that last post on the media's true motive, and via an old Bob Harris post I somehow remembered, here is an interesting essay, Advertising as Payola: Who really owns CNN?. Among the advertisers not really advertising:

• Boeing
  
• Dow Chemical
  
• Lockheed Martin
  
• British Petroleum
  
• The United States Telecommunications Association
  
• ConocoPhillips