This is a naive view of it, IMO. Political ideologies run rampant at large corporations nowadays, and then it trickles into the actual product/service due to management.

It's possible that some large corporations have decided that appearing to publicly support one ideology or another will be good for business. If that alienates you, you are likely not the audience they're targeting. If they're doing a bad job of that and alienating people who should be their customers, well, the market will take of that, won't it?

> The fact is most people don't want to know about things that conflict with their world view. I don't think what the media is doing is intentionally malicious, they just need to perpetuate a specific world view to keep their viewers.

If your viewers demand malice and being malicious is the only way to keep your viewers, that doesn't mean you're not being malicious; it means you're being malicious for money.