Less than 200 very wealthy and highly interconnected individuals own or shepherd the entire spectrum of global media and communications companies.

These aren't theories, but common, public knowledge.

Every individual and their affiliation in these tables, is a matter of of established record. Make your own hypotheses and construct your own framework for analysis, on the basis of having this information clearly illustrated in two simple charts.
Without coming to any final conclusion about the nature, method, objective or ideological agenda of this existing concentration of global power, ask yourself instead:
"Given this, what are reasonable expectations for influence through the mechanism of popular electoral politics?"
The American Empire and its Media

Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major US news outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Swiss Policy Research
"They Live"
Getting us to blame this on an ethnic group or secret society is one more trick, to render us ignorant, certainly helpless.