"Mainstream media is the term often used to describe the collective group of big TV, radio and newspapers in the United States," Project Censored [3]'s Peter Phillips writes. "However, mainstream media no longer produce news for the mainstream population - nor should we consider the media as plural. Instead it is more accurate to speak of big media in the US today as the corporate media and to use the term in the singular tense - as it refers to the singular monolithic top-down power structure of self-interested news giants." Research carried out by Phillips and a team at Sonoma State University finds that "only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. ... These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations."