Top Senate Democrat: bankers "own" the U.S. Congress

Top Senate Democrat: bankers "own" the U.S. Congress - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: "One might think it would be a big news story for the second most-powerful member of the U.S. Senate to baldly state that the Congress is 'owned' by the bankers who spawned the financial crisis and continue to dictate the government's actions. But it won't be. The leading members of the media work for the very corporations that benefit most from this process. Establishment journalists are integral and well-rewarded members of the same system and thus cannot and will not see it as inherently corrupt (instead, as Newsweek's Evan Thomas said, their role, as 'members of the ruling class,' is to 'prop up the existing order, protect traditional institutions and safeguard the status quo'). "