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kpete

(71,996 posts) Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:38 AM Dec 2015

Mainstream media subverts, ignores, & embellishes current events to better represent own interests.

Here’s what the corporate media won’t tell you. Almost all news consumed through TV comes through just five major television networks, and all of these networks are owned by the super rich or big business.

NBC is owned by General Electric. GE is the nation’s largest corporation and recorded profits of over 3.2 billion dollars selling weapons to the U.S military.

CBS is owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone, who holds a net-worth of 6.2 billion dollars and endorsed George W. Bush in the 2004 election.

ABC is owned by Disney, who’s CEO Bob Iger was awarded a 13.5 million dollar bonus in 2010 while ordinary workers were in the midst of recession era lay offs.

Fox is owned by vocal billionaire conservative Rupert Murdoch, who used his vast media holdings in the U.K to decisively influence voters against progressives by mounting a full on media campaign to discredit the Labour Party.

Finally, CNN is owned by Time Warner, the third largest entertainment corporation in the world. Their CEO Jeffrey Bewkes is a former employee of CitiBank, and is currently worth over 100 million dollars.

The millionaires and billionaires that manage these companies do not strive to represent the interests of the average American. They’re in no rush to cover stories on income inequality, labor unions or any type of social activism. It’s likely that you haven’t even heard of half these people. Good. They want to keep it that way.

http://youngchangebestchange.org/2015/12/14/what-the-corporate-media-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

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Mainstream media subverts, ignores, & embellishes current events to better represent own interests. (Original Post) kpete Dec 2015 OP

Media's primary role is impression management malaise Dec 2015 #1

If you don't unwilling to accept this, you are doomed... MattSh Dec 2015 #2

There's a reason Wall Steet Journal has more articles about caviar than cooperatives. Scuba Dec 2015 #3

Thanks for the link. nt raccoon Dec 2015 #4

malaise

(269,054 posts)

1. Media's primary role is impression management

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:45 AM

Dec 2015

and their agenda is the agenda of their owners.

MattSh

(3,714 posts)

2. If you don't unwilling to accept this, you are doomed...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:40 AM

Dec 2015

to live your life in a haze of misinformation, lies, and propaganda.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

3. There's a reason Wall Steet Journal has more articles about caviar than cooperatives.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:58 AM

Dec 2015

http://www.alternet.org/economy/revealed-wall-street-journal-more-interested-caviar-and-foie-gras-employee-owned-firms

For instance, a sample assessment of coverage between January and November of 2012 by the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States,theWall Street Journal,found ten times more references to caviar than to employee-owned firms, a growing sector of the economy that involves more than $800 billion in assets and 10 million employee-owners—around three million more individuals than are members of unions in the private sector.

raccoon

(31,111 posts)

4. Thanks for the link. nt

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:36 AM

Dec 2015

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