Here's a video on Noam Chomsky and manufacturing consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU
6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Drudge and Breditbart may peddle a narrative that's more pleasing to you than mainstream media, but it's very biased and sensationalist.
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#103Better than just 1 corporation
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#104This graphic is out of date and has errors in it. It implies the Huffington Post is owned by Time Warner, which has never owned it. In fact, AOL bought it two full years after splitting off from Time Warner.
Additionally, it should be noted that Time Warner recently split its entertainment properties from its publishing properties [1], and doesn't account for the fact that the print publishing world is quite a bit different. Six corporations may own 90 percent of the world's media, but they don't own The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, or USA Today. Hmm.
[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/03/11/ti...
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Media Filter"?
When distribution is bottle necked to a single or few locations, the difference between content creation and content consumption blurs significantly. If its not distributed - its not seen. The same net effect as not ever being created.
Absolutely. The value of media is solely in distribution, irrespective of the original source. Distribution is kind of baked into the definition.
A term like "media filter" only has value in distinguishing between "traditional" media and companies like Facebook. But, strictly speaking, Facebook is as much the media as traditional outlets and, in this context, those outlets are merely sources for Facebook.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
OANN rocks! Been very happy with it.
LOL For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to view the One America News Network, they think the guys over at Fox are a bunch of liberal pussies.
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#107Some 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?
I recommend The Real News, Jacobin, and wsws.org. WSWS has some interesting geopolitical coverage that I don't see elsewhere that makes it worth reading despite being very opinionated [1].
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/17/pola-j17.html [1]
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A 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. PBS and NPR, both modern day liberal, fascist, so called, news hacks, loyal to the Democrats to a fault. > To me, this seems much more problematic than the limited competition between corporate media. The US is not China, that is a very, very good thing.
You're literally contradicting yourself. Something cannot be both liberal and fascist (a philosophy characterized by authoritarianism and limited individual freedom)
Wait, what's the contradiction? You can definitely have liberal fascism. Italy under Mussolini is considered by many scholars as a liberal, fascist regime. There's lots of scholarly work on the subject.
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#109This is what antimonopoly/antitrust laws should have been used against, but in this merger and aquisition market, the people with the power to invoke them are too corrupted and regulatory captured to do it, and so the people suffer.
Side note: in the past posting or talking about this was easy grounds to be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist".
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#110> 232 media executives control the information diet of 277 million Americans.
> That's 1 media exec to 850,000 subscribers
More like 1,194,000 subscribers. How can one take such a presentation seriously when the authors fail at basic arithmetic?