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Anna Maria Tremonti: "What do you think of the way the media has ... You're putting what's gone on in Baltimore in a wider context, and you're making some very strong links to other ills in America. What do you think of the way the media Has covered these issues?"

Chris Hedges: "They haven't covered it. They only cover it when it erupts. So the poor in the United States are invisible. [...] They have been rendered invisible; news, especially on the commercial networks, is judged solely for its entertainment value and its ability to attract advertising dollars; under Clinton we deregulated the FCC, so the airwaves have been consolidated in the hands of about six corporations [...] and it's all about catering to corporate interests in order to extract corporate money and promote a corporate agenda. And that has meant that the vast majority of the media in the United States has utterly walked away from what should be their role, which is giving a voice to people in the society who, without their presence, would not have a voice (and you just did that on the CBC)."

-- from the CBC radio program The Current, on 2015-05-13 [bold emphasis added; underline emphasis reflects what I heard while transcribing]

There are a bunch of other interesting points in the interview. If you've got twenty five minutes, give it a listen. (Do any of y'all have the patience to transcribe the bit about effects of unfettered capitalism and our history of violence, from 11:55 to 13:11, maybe all the way to 14:00?)