Lately I've been compiling a ton of information about media propaganda, and figured I'd post it here. Among the information is documentaries,
articles, and YouTube videos explaining propaganda tactics as well as the organizations that control the media (So far I've found strong ties to the
Central Intelligence Agency and the Council on Foreign Relations), interviews with people who are knowledgeable on the topic, and images/quotes about
the media. Constructive criticism on the things that I post would be great.
If you guys can post anything that has to do with the controlled, corrupt media, that would be awesome. That could be anything from articles
and videos explaining the techniques/tactics to basic information and examples of propaganda from the mainstream media. Even your personal explanation
of the problems with the mainstream media, some of the propaganda methods, the reasons for their agenda, and things like that would work. The more
educational and informative, the better.
Some articles:
Operation Mockingbird
The Stupefacation of a Nation
The CIA and the Media
Some quotes:
-"The truth of the matter is that increasingly, what we see, what we hear, and what we read is being controlled by fewer and fewer large,
multi-national corporations."
-- Representative Bernie Sanders, US Congressman, Vermont.
There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.
You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would
never appear in print.
I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with--others of you are paid similar
salaries for similar things--and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job.
The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell
his race and his country for his daily bread.
You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an "Independent Press."
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
-- John Swinton, editor of the New York Tribune,
in the 1880s, at a banquet of his fellow editors.
-"The press ... traditionally sides with authority and the establishment."
-- Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent.
-"There's an apposite quote from Dr. Goebbels. 'What you want in a media system is austensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity'"
-- Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at New York University.
Website with more quotes and lots of articles
Some interviews:
Mark Crispin Miller: "Mainstream Media in the US is disgusting"
Mainstream media, US propaganda
John R. Macarthur interviewed about war propaganda
Ed Herman interviewed about propaganda in a democratic society
Some videos:
How the Council on Foreign Relations Controls the Media:
Behind Big News: Propaganda and the CFR:
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism:
Corporate Media in American Society (Part 1):
(Part 2)
General information:
Mainstream Media Tactics:
--Selection of topics
--Distribution of concerns
--Emphasis
--Framing of issues
--Filtering of information
--Bounding of debate
-They determine, select, shape, control, and restrict information in order to serve the interests of the dominant elite groups.
1) GENERAL ELECTRIC - NBC
TV Holdings:
* NBC: Owns outright 13 stations and many affiliates, Market penetration: 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: Owns The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline.
* CNBC business network, MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by both NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner),
Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft, Bill Gate's Microsoft donated 2.4 million in 2000 to get George W Bush elected.
Other Holdings:
* GE Consumer Electronics and Household Products and components used in military electronics..
* GE Power Systems, which makes turbines for nuclear reactors, wind turbines, "clean" coal technology.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware for fighter jets, ships and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: manufactures engines and diesel and electric locomotives.
2) WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
TV Holdings:
* CBS: Owns outright 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News, CBS Morning News.
* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network.
* Group W Satellite Communications.
Other Holdings:
* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry including owning 4 nuclear plants, waste disposal and transport.
3) DISNEY - ABC
TV Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations outright, many affiliates, Penetration in the market: 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as smaller holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Other Major Media Holdings.
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Major Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, Discover.
* Three recording labels, twelve major local newspapers.
* Hyperion books.
* Infoseek search engine.
Major shareholders include Sid R. Bass, oil and gas baron.
4) TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL
TV Holdings:
* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel,
TNT, Comedy Central.
* Largest cable system owner with an estimated 13 million households.
Media Holdings:
* HBO Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
* Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI.
* Thirty three major magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People Magazine, In Style, Fortune, The Book of the Month Club, Entertainment
Weekly, Life Magazne, DC Comics, MAD Magazine.
Other major corporation Holdings:
* Sports Teams and Wrestling: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.
5) NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS
Major Television Holdings:
* Fox Television: includes 22 major and many affiliate stations, Penetration into more than 60% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin
America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia, IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%), major
owner of DirecTV.
* The Golf Channel (33%).
Other Major Media Hodings:
* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.
* 132 major newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
* Owns 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* Owns HarperCollins books.
Othe Major Corporation Holdings around the word:
* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League.
* Ansett Australia airline, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch is on the Board of Directors of Philip Morris, a major Bush donor.
Who owns the
news?edit on 23-11-2011 by TupacShakur because: (no reason given)
Here is a piece from the earlier war 
