You said something that deserves further thought; >>If you are paid to push the views of a corporation or a political party you are effectively negating the free speech of the individual who is not being paid to express their beliefs. Human attention, individual and/or collective, is finite. Therefore, the competition for it is a zero sum game. This would suggest certain features that we see everyday with the media. 1). Advertising will only become more frequent and will fill the entire range; from overt obnoxious messaging to the smarmy, dishonest native advertising of "media influencers" and undisclosed paid promoters. 2). The targeting of increasingly specific demographics, for marketing purposes, will incentivize corporations and political parties to surveil us with increasing powerful technologies to pry into every aspect of our lives so that they can better predict our preferences and ultimately, our thoughts and behavior. The first is merely a nuisance, the second represents an existential hazard to the republic.