The above article contains some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. Its author equates the corporate corruption of government with ... ads in a magazine?!? Seriously, are you retarded? Your lame props to Nader etc. at the end show how stupid the whole idea is. Guess what, genius, Nader once spoke on network TV; network TV is funded by corporate ads; that makes Nader (and everyone else who's ever been on TV) as crooked as Tom DeLay. See how that works?

Commercial media has its disadvantages, and can be harmful to democracy, but to assume that it's in the same ballpark or even the same universe as corrupt government is ridiculous.