which increases the costs of producing a broadcast production, newspaper or website. Even media accessed for free is inundated with adverts and web banners, all testament to advertising as a source of income to mainstream media. However, today certain media platforms eliminate the harassment of advertisements or the option of ad-blockers is widely adopted for those who demand continuous media consumption. The media elite The notion of corporate censorship stems from the desire to curb and confine public broadcasting. Media elites possess established ‘think tanks’ that will provide the media with pro-corporate experts who meet conservative standards. Throughout the 1980’s the most quoted think thank was the Heritage Foundation, one of the most influential conservative right- winged voice. These conservative think tanks have the financial aid to influence the news gathering process, they include government officials and politicians typically seen as impartial and reliable sources. The majority of the American public opinion is evidently more liberal on economic issues then conservative ‘experts’ who dominate the media on areas including government social policy and government spending priority. This closed system of media censorship, manipulates individuals to trust the expert opinion and complimentary co-independent source as observed in the 2003 Iraq War where official claims surrounding Iraq were presented as an official source without investigation of their reliability. Today’s relevance: It has become clear that the adoption of corporate and government approved sources have used the advantage of being recognized as credible sources through “their status and prestige” (Herman & Chomsky, 1998). When the propaganda model was first introduced “the mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and recipro>