larry,

  Good point.
  So who said the media want democracy?
  The media, in its domination of our reality, has its own corporatist global economy billionaire oligarchy agenda. The unthinkable has happened due to media concentration in the hands of a few billionaire conglomerates. Democracy has become an unnecessary expense, cutting into the profits of the 1%, including the media corporations.

   The biggest threat to corporate media oligarchs is the democracy of the Internet. The biggest profit maker and source of power for the media is the endless wars we are burdened with.
  The media purport to be liberal but their fiscal policies, like those of all national governments and the 1% oligarchs, are always very conservative. 
   Clearly the interests of the wealthy media and average working people are completely different.
  The only counter to the perpetual drift to the right is the left .
  The only hope on the current political scene is the Bernie Sanders left wing revolution.