"Corporate media" is a term used by certain liberals and leftists to criticize mass media news allegedly controlled by large corporate interests. To use U.S. media as an example, such critics have accused "elites" running the networks NBC, CBS, and ABC (as well as their parent companies: General Electric, Viacom, and Disney, respectively) of manipulating and filtering out certain news that does not fit their commercial interest. The Fox News Channel, often said to be right-leaning by several American liberals and some conservatives, draws perhaps the most criticism as a corporate media outlet, as it is owned by the massively successful News Corp.
Radical U.S. critics Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman have established a propaganda model that purportedly explains this alleged systematic bias.
The term can be contrasted with "liberal media", a term used by many conservatives, particularly within the U.S., to criticize the network media as tilted toward a liberal perspective.