Is it true that the major media are controlled by big corporations which belong to the five richest families in the States? Is everything in the news shaped by them?

No.   You can look up the 5 richest families in the United States and see that they are not in the media business:

America’s Richest Families

The first media power is the Hearst family, at #6, evidently controlling our politics in a circuitous way way via their ownership of ESPN and A&E and magazines like House Beautiful and Seventeen.

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