If Chomsky is right(), then what is to be done?
() I am inclined to think he is fwiw
You might look into a completely a-political media outlets, like Discovery Channel on TV, or Tom's Hardware on the net. Is it a complete and utter crap compared to what it was 10-20 years ago? Absolutely. Was there any "government-corporate-media complex" involved in running them to the ground? Absolutely not. It's just that the "aliens at Nazis' service"/"best LED mice for gaming" — respectively — somehow generate more revenue (in TV/Google Ads sales) than the content these outlets ran in the past.
1. "the ownership of the media";
2. "advertising as the primary source of the income of media companies";
3. "the sources of the information and opinions that are propagated by mass media, which are primarily government officials, business interests, and the experts who are approved of and often funded by government and business";
4. "the negative feedback that mass media companies get when their content conflicts with these common interests";
5. fear, i.e., "mass media have an interest in selecting and conveying information, and in molding what counts as a respectable range of opinion, in a manner that is conducive to generating fear and hostility toward anyone who would challenge the shared basic ideological presuppositions of the overall government-corporate-media complex".
In other words, the media is a propaganda machine that reflects and reinforces the narrative of the regime. It involves no conspiracy, only dependence and coincidence of interest. As Chomsky would say, the media is to democracy what the police baton is to more overtly aggressive regimes.
[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2022/03/chomskys-propaganda...