Facts on Media in America: Did You Know?, page 1
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Topic started on 29-8-2009 @ 10:07 AM by Chilled Zen
I've been reading Jim Marrs latest book "Above Top Secret". In it he says that almost everything you see, hear or read in America is controlled by 6 MNCs(multinational corporations).

I've been trying to verify some of this info he writes about. Best link I found was this one.

Common Cause

FACT: Viacom owns CBS; General Electric owns NBC; Disney owns ABC; and News Corporation owns Fox Broadcasting Company. ABC's corporate parent is the Walt Disney Company.


Interesting site in general, it does prove that these corporations are in command of nearly all MSM in America.

A search on ATS and Google brings up a list of problems regarding these Corporations, its fairly easy to find these articles and stories so I'll let you find them. Here's one to get started.

General Electric

Do you trust them to give unbiased, independent reporting? That sort of journalism doesn't make the most profit.


reply posted on 29-8-2009 @ 10:56 AM by RRconservative
Look at who they hire and what party they donate to, and you will see that their money goes mostly to one party.

www.msnbc.msn.com...

The following 143 journalists made campaign contributions from 2004 through the first quarter of 2007, according to Federal Election Commission records studied by MSNBC.com.

Key:

(D) contributed to Democrats or liberal causes.

(R) to Republicans and conservative causes.

Click on "details" next to each name to see the amounts and what the journalists have to say.


I counted 123 out of 143 journalists contributing to the Democrats....that's 86%



reply posted on 29-8-2009 @ 11:30 AM by havok
reply to post by uaocteaou


Well said. Thats why you can't trust anything you see on TV.
This is the most over-looked subject in society today. All I see and hear are how this news said this, or that show said that. Its never what really happened...its what they want you to think happened.

--->MSM


reply posted on 29-8-2009 @ 02:19 PM by Chilled Zen
reply to post by uaocteaou


Exactly, its not really about left/right though the information on the donations was interesting.

Mainly I'm trying to point out that the MSM in the US is ruled by corporations drive for profits and power.


reply posted on 1-9-2009 @ 09:00 AM by Chilled Zen
reply to post by karl 12


Thanks for the comment + praise.

I'm a big fan of George Orwell's work especially 1984 +Animal Farm which I feel is important reading for older children, it may be a little dark but boy would they start questioning things more.

Looking forward to viewing that video after I finish the JFK case review.

Edited to say thanks for the links autowrench, the more info the better.

[edit on 1/9/09 by Chilled Zen]


reply posted on 1-9-2009 @ 11:40 AM by Jabronie
Originally posted by Chilled Zen
reply to post by uaocteaou


Exactly, its not really about left/right though the information on the donations was interesting.

Mainly I'm trying to point out that the MSM in the US is ruled by corporations drive for profits and power.


What would you rather have, though?

Should the government own the news? Would you really trust a government-run news opperation to report honest news about the government?


reply posted on 1-9-2009 @ 01:12 PM by Chilled Zen
reply to post by Jabronie


Government controlled news would be plain dangerous to freedom of information, that's a step towards totalitarianism.

Having news company's being non publicaly traded is one idea, so they would be free from corporate influence to an extent. Non profit news might be a good idea as well.

I do think it would be a good idea to make a thread which catalogs each news station and its bias/owners + provide better news sites.


reply posted on 2-9-2009 @ 05:42 PM by Chilled Zen
reply to post by Finalized


Good link my friend, so many popular news sources there its quite worrying that these companies have such a large market share.



reply posted on 2-9-2009 @ 09:32 PM by sjb7w6
reply to post by Chilled Zen

That is a great book by Ben H. Bagdikian by the name of The Media Monopoly. The last edition I read came out in 2000. It does a great job at illustrating the control of the major corporations that you mentioned. When any company decides what can be published or broadcasted, it automatically becomes biased. It is up to the public to figure out a way to stop these monopolies before it becomes to late. Many people believe it is to late. The time to stop it would have been in the late 80's.


reply posted on 3-9-2009 @ 04:26 PM by Chilled Zen
reply to post by sjb7w6


You mean when they were growing and beginning to expand there influences? Yeah I guess it would have been the right time, but I think people were too hypnotized by the profits and trade these MNCs were creating to see what could happen in the future.

As to whether they can be stopped now, if people knew the info in this thread it would be a good start, boycotting their products could work.
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