While we receive plenty of news brought to us by mainstream media, there seems to be a large portion of hidden news being tucked away from the average person's reach. The websites Antiwar.com and The American Conservative give readers the opportunity to hear the viewpoints that are not commonly shared in the mainstream media. Many of these voices carry anti war or pro diplomacy messages that discourage conflicts overseas, which would naturally conflict with pro war parties or corporations that profit off of war efforts. Coincidentally or not, many of the news sources that have become mainstream have connections or are owned by large corporations, which then have ties to defense contractors and other similar interests. These ties to ownership, and therefor control over the direction of the coverage, can serve as a conflict of interest for these mainstream news networks because they would naturally be less inclined to report on military intervention that put them in a bad light. These developments may conflict with the economic interests of the owning companies. 
These factors create an environment where the mainstream media often portrays military action taken by us or our allies as a necessary part of national security. These messages can be tied to arbitrary associations with patriotism or loyalty to try to frame antiwar advocates as disloyal to their country. Some of these effects culminate by the restriction of the mainstream media’s coverage on certain topics, and evidently their restriction of certain voices. While antiwar media is not nearly as evident in the mainstream media as support for conflict, it is not impossible to find with the right direction
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