Crash Course Media Literacy #5: Media and Money

Media isn't just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it's also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people -- a range of people, making a range of decisions and earning a range of different paychecks to do it. Those decisions matter and understanding how money affects those decisions is an essential component of media literacy.