Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.