I've been wondering that myself.  There are movements to decrease umemployment by lowering the minimum wage and taking away the rights of the workers, corporations are bribing politicians left and right, Higher Education is becoming a must for more and more jobs.  People are required to have a college degree to manage many grocery stores, but the salaries aren't enough to pay back student loans, the oil industry is behind just about every international conflict the US has been involved in for the last 60 years.  They talk about energy independence, which solat and wind would bring us, but they fight against solar and wind energy because it would mean competition for them and cause them to reduce prices to compete.  Major department stores have driven smaller local grocery, pet, plant nursery, and clothing stores out of business.  They move into areas and under cut everyone pricewise, then raise their prices once everyone is driven out of business and sell made-in-china-by-cheap-labot products.  They talk about privatizing everything, including schools, parks, roads, libraries, ect saying that private citizens could do a better job than the government.  What people don't realize is that taxes will not be decreased and the provatized services will mean more bills to pay.
BBC and PBS are publicly funded channels (or goverment funded as some people put it).  The programs produced on those stations are about the stories people have to tell.  CBS, NBC, ABC, ect are corporate owned.  They are about the stories people have to sell.