Many mass media corporations were doing everything they could to encourage the war in Iraq, including cancelling popular talk show hosts who dared to ask questions:
> Donahue commented in 2007 that the management of MSNBC, owned at the time by General Electric, a major defense contractor, required that "we have two conservative (guests) for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals."[23]
Guess the military-industrial complex wins over free speech again.