Today mass media exercise enormous ______.

Today the mass media exercise enormous corporate power.

Concentrated ownership by large media conglomerates gives them wide economic and social influence.

Speaking of ethical might misreads their dominant force, which flows from ownership rather than morality.

Economic influence names only one facet and understates the broader corporate control they wield.

Trade unionism concerns organised labour and does not describe the power the media hold.

Their leverage arises from corporate concentration over production and distribution of content.

This ties to critiques of media monopoly and conglomeration.