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Originally posted by tracehd1
reply to post by Aggie Man
Omg.. thankyou. I thought I was the only one thinking... *KICK THEIR ASS!!* lol
Originally posted by Laurauk
reply to post by Immortalgemini527
If you are referring to me with your comments I would suggest you either backtrack, and apologise or I will alert a mod. I am not Fox News Lover, I do not even watch the damm news channel, nor am I Judas, or either a republican, so your accusations are baseless.
Just because someone has a different opinion to yours does not give you the right to go flamming that member.
Originally posted by whaaa
reply to post by Immortalgemini527
I had to star that simply because you used one of my favorite phrases "people like you"
What are exactly are the people like that are categorized in the "people like you" designation.
I'm one apparently because I have been called that countless times, and I still haven't figured it out.
topic...news people are beaten usually because someone doesn't want the exposure of their crimes, corruption or brutality.
edit on 4-2-2011 by whaaa because: (no reason given)
"Presidential debates were run by the civic-minded League of Women Voters until 1988, when the national Republican and Democratic parties seized control of the debates by establishing the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Posing as a nonpartisan institution, the CPD has deceptively run the debates in the interests of the national Republican and Democratic parties, not the American people.
Since 1988, negotiators for the Republican and Democratic nominees have secretly drafted debate contracts that dictate how the presidential debates will be structured. The CPD, which is co-chaired by the former heads of the Republican and Democratic parties, has implemented those contracts."
Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. ... [They] are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal.
But even those areas of the media that the “big six” do not completely control are becoming increasingly concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States.
The U.S. media landscape is dominated by massive corporations that, through a history of mergers and acquisitions, have concentrated their control over what we see, hear and read. In many cases, these giant companies are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial production to final distribution.