I think it's horrible. Look at Italy, where Berlusconi was PM for a long time. He used his media channels to promote himself and his party, which isn't good. As I posted in this thread, many media groups are owned or controlled by the wealth. The Thompson Family (owners of Thompson-Reuters) or Conrad Black (use to own Harrbinger Group, which owned the National Post and bunch of other papers) made fortunes in the news business. Rupert Murdoch owns a global collection of papers and broadcasters, and manipulates coverage. Look at the scandals his organizations have been involved in, or the disinformation Fox spreads.