6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
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6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
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#2There's a note in the text, but the infographic is way out of date.
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#3Except that media is much more than TV and newspapers. More and more people turn their backs on traditional media and get their information from a blend of many internet sites and witness videos on youtube and so on. And I only see this trend growing in the future.
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#4Scary how much of an effect how few can have on so many, just wait 'til they all are owned by one person (it'll happen)
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#5Except that media is much more than TV and newspapers. More and more people turn their backs on traditional media and get their information from a blend of many internet sites and witness videos on youtube and so on. And I only see this trend growing in the future.
This is true. However, online media is becoming more and more concentrated(and manipulated) as well. Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Google, and 4chan all make up a large chunk of our online media, and it should be apparent to most people at this point that each of those sites are either controlled by a company, country, or PR team. It wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing a decline in trust of online media in the future, too.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#6Except that media is much more than TV and newspapers. More and more people turn their backs on traditional media and get their information from a blend of many internet sites and witness videos on youtube and so on. And I only see this trend growing in the future.
This is true. However, online media is becoming more and more concentrated(and manipulated) as well. Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Google, and 4chan all make up a large chunk of our online media, and it should be apparent to most people at this point that each of those sites are either controlled by a company, country, or PR team. It wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing a decline in trust of online media in the future…
To point: fake news. Whether a particular undesirable-to-power news item is fake or not, the news can be labeled as fake.
The well is being poisoned as we speak.
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#7I know hardly anyone likes the MSM (myself included), however is this stat so bad? Is it anything unusual for any other industry?
Mature industries consolidate - its just a fundamental nature of the growth process. How many corporations control packaged chicken? cell phones? cement?
No doubt the voices behind such "X mega-corps control Y" are in fact just advocating for legislation changes to mandate that they get a seat at the table.
The very concept of "MSM" is a bit of an anachronism in this age. Not even sure why we should talk about it. There are youtube channels broadcast from a garage that get more daily views than Anderson Cooper ever will. Best thing is to just switch off the TV and let the dinosaurs slowly die...
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#8Isn't facebook already bigger than some of the firms mentioned in the articles? Or is it not counted as media?
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#9Except that media is much more than TV and newspapers. More and more people turn their backs on traditional media and get their information from a blend of many internet sites and witness videos on youtube and so on. And I only see this trend growing in the future.
This is true. However, online media is becoming more and more concentrated(and manipulated) as well. Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Google, and 4chan all make up a large chunk of our online media, and it should be apparent to most people at this point that each of those sites are either controlled by a company, country, or PR team. It wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing a decline in trust of online media in the future…
In Europe, generally, 1) webmasters are usually responsible of the comments left in their webpages by their users, and 2) webmasters have to make clear what their names and addresses are.
Myself, sometimes I've thought of creating a forum or a community, only to be turned away when I think of that. Do you think 4chan would have ever existed if moot had had to put his real name and address there, and if he was legally responsible of what people published in 4chan? Impossible.
So all online communities will always be concentrated in the US, at least for the foreseeable future. :(
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#10Scary how much of an effect how few can have on so many, just wait 'til they all are owned by one person (it'll happen)
That is true but it is more a distribution problem, if you add more companies and shuffle the sector again it will stabilize in few corporations again.