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6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
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Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#62America is like a capatalist dream. People seems to trust money and companies more than their own government and laws.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#63A big difference between the US media and the rest of the developed world seems to be a complete absence of state-owned/subsidized/run media. To me, this seems much more problematic than the limited competition between corporate media. In the US, it seems that news/stories/investigative reporting without some commercial interest to some company tends to go underreported. There is no money in being critical towards bu…
Culturally, many people would dismiss state-owned media perspective as a kind of Pravda. Because of the cultural perspective, two things would happen: firstly, politicians would think it's OK to instruct such media to follow a particular party line; and secondly, journalists and presenters that are the visible face of the media would also follow the party line, because they think that's where the money is coming from…
> two things would happen: firstly, politicians would think it's OK to instruct such media to follow a particular party line; and secondly, journalists and presenters that are the visible face of the media would also follow the party line, because they think that's where the money is coming from, so it would be stupid to do otherwise.
In my experience the opposite is true.
eg in Austria:
* politicans aren't allowed to interfere w/ the state owned programming and it's usually deeply rooted opinion in those institutes to be independent - they are a service to the people of the country not the current government
* private media are usually considered to be in favor of the party that pays them the most in ad spending and follows their own political agendas
* state owned news shows are usually known to be more critical (we done the research, stop BSing please) towards politicians than private ones (which politicians obviously consider unfair)
obviously in reality everything is shades of grey and not black/white. eg journalists still tend to have own political worldviews and report biased with them. but state owned doesn't by default mean propaganda channel.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#64Some might ask why this matters. The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind. These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites. They have, in my opinion, been quite effective at brainwashi…
What other sources do you use, I ask as an over 30 something who wants to see how the other half lives?
Internet media is the new media. Check out DrudgeReport.com, breitbart.com and InfoWars.com. If you're looking for something on your TV, your only hope is OANN, but most cable providers don't carry them yet.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#65Some might ask why this matters. The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind. These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites. They have, in my opinion, been quite effective at brainwashi…
> The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind.
I'm curious about why you've got the US government out of the equation. Do you really think that those "few distasteful foreign goverments" play a bigger role or collude more than the US government with those media corporations?
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#66A big difference between the US media and the rest of the developed world seems to be a complete absence of state-owned/subsidized/run media. To me, this seems much more problematic than the limited competition between corporate media. In the US, it seems that news/stories/investigative reporting without some commercial interest to some company tends to go underreported. There is no money in being critical towards bu…
Culturally, many people would dismiss state-owned media perspective as a kind of Pravda. Because of the cultural perspective, two things would happen: firstly, politicians would think it's OK to instruct such media to follow a particular party line; and secondly, journalists and presenters that are the visible face of the media would also follow the party line, because they think that's where the money is coming from…
This is not what Americans believe at all. This is what the corporate media wants you to think that this is what Americans believe. You have been propagandized -- you've taken a false consensus and turned this into a false conscious. This is exactly the danger of having such a concentrated corporate-controlled media.
A bit more than half the country consistently votes for more government. The so-called "blue states" (really, urbanized states) consistently (and strangely) vote to increase their own taxes so that the government can be a bigger part of the environmental regulations, healthcare and education.
As for the red states talk to these people. Many of these people only enjoy any kind of decent quality of life because of extraordinarily generous transfer payments... from the federal government. Cut off medicare, SSI, SSDI and whole towns would disappear. This is why when people actually saw Trump's budget they freaked the fuck out. Severe cuts in the federal budget would be beyond devastating to these states [1] and many of them know it. (This may be why so often politicians push for tax cuts but very rarely talk seriously about cutting spending.)
But something interesting happens almost every second of day in the US. Though many people benefit enormously from the government's generosity the media reports purely on the "harm" caused by the government. The result is precisely this narrative "the best government is no government" -- parroted by a people who's devouring of government largess would put the Romans to shame. It's a farce but as you can see it's a very effective farce.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/2...
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#67Some might ask why this matters. The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind. These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites. They have, in my opinion, been quite effective at brainwashi…
> I've long ago moved on to better news sources Any recommendations?
Here's a long list of YouTubers who cover the news. Some of these people I've never heard of, and some of them I'd stay far away from [e.g., Alex Jones]:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/which-youtuber-channel...
For online news aggregators... He's overly right-wing for my tastes, but the best truly independent aggregator I've been able to find is Drudge. I'm frankly stunned that after 20 years, the powers that be have not yet found a way to shut him down.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#68Some might ask why this matters. The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind. These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites. They have, in my opinion, been quite effective at brainwashi…
What other sources do you use, I ask as an over 30 something who wants to see how the other half lives?
Eh. Tough question. You don't want to make the mistake of using sources with an opposite mindset to the prevailing media.
Prevailing media has a strong democratic bias. Opposing media has a strong republican bias (breitbart, oann, etc).
Better media doesn't give a shit. I suggest sott.net, global research, strategic culture, mises.org, the intercept, reason, opslens, the unz review, counterpunch, zerohedge.
KEEP IN MIND: all of these sources require a STRONG BS filter. It's like startups v established companies: lots of bullshit with diamonds in the rough thrown in. It's your job to find the diamonds. When you find them, they're totally worth it.
Those should get you started. In general, I tend to also follow a host of individuals on twitter of varying backgrounds to get a greater variety.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#69A big difference between the US media and the rest of the developed world seems to be a complete absence of state-owned/subsidized/run media. To me, this seems much more problematic than the limited competition between corporate media. In the US, it seems that news/stories/investigative reporting without some commercial interest to some company tends to go underreported. There is no money in being critical towards bu…
Culturally, many people would dismiss state-owned media perspective as a kind of Pravda. Because of the cultural perspective, two things would happen: firstly, politicians would think it's OK to instruct such media to follow a particular party line; and secondly, journalists and presenters that are the visible face of the media would also follow the party line, because they think that's where the money is coming from…
Most western european countries have public media that operate independently from the government.
Many forms are possible: the British BBC single broadcaster model to the fragmented model of my country with many competing broadcasting associations. I think most models work out well enough.
Of course, comparing to Pravda is a straw man argument: I was promoting a balance between (independent) public and commercial media
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#70Some might ask why this matters. The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind. These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites. They have, in my opinion, been quite effective at brainwashi…
> I've long ago moved on to better news sources Any recommendations?
NYTimes