The fact that the airwaves and newspapers are controlled by very few media giants means that the truth just isn't getting to people. I'm specifically thinking of folks like my folks who live in a rural, conservative part of Michigan. They aren't web-savvy, their local newspaper prints little about what's happening in the country and the world outside their little community, and their cable network only has Fox, not even MSNBC. When millions of people around the world and across the US protested the impending Iraq invasion in 2003, my mother hadn't heard a word about it until I mentioned it to her a few years later. My step-father swears by Fox, since everything he sees there is echoed in their local newspaper.