Corporate Welfare

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"Wonder why news outlets regularly demonize low-income mothers who need small sums of public assistance to feed their children, yet very rarely report on the billions in corporate welfare (tax breaks, incentives, bailouts) raked in by their parent companies or their advertisers?"

This is a quote from the Media Literacy Article for last week.  I found this excerpt especially interesting.  MTV, while definately not considered one of the above news outlets, is a multi-billion dollar corporation and I'd be very curious to know about how corporate welfare plays a part and how that impact trickles down into their individual shows like "16 & Pregnant." 

Wikipedia's page for "Corporate Welfare" describes an instance where agricultural subsidies are portrayed as helping honest, hardworking independent farmers stay afloat. However, the majority of income gained from commodity support programs actually goes to large agribusiness corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland, as they own a considerably large percentage of production.

http://reut.rs/eLdL0y <--This article talks about some of the ways that corporate welfare are being battled on the political level but through research I could not find a connection between MTV and the Media Literacy article.

Megan Z