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Good you still have the BBC.
Who are liberal, modern day liberal, which is worse.
Is it? How so?
6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
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Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#112Some 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…
Curious what are your sources. I have a few friends who are also anti-big news outlets and they link me to their alternative sources, which some of them are VERY ultra-right-wing outlets.
Bloomberg is okay for financial news.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I ditched cable TV about 7 years ago I lost track of these outlets. I can't say I've missed them. I occasionally open cnn.com if I'm bored, mostly because it's quick to type. I have a (physical) subscription to the Economist, which is where I get all my serious news. I can't tell you how great it is to read the news without the page content shifting all around because of ads loading.
I ditched both TV and The Economist 20 years ago. The latter was difficult. I was emotionally attached; it felt good to put that issue on the counter ("I'm smart, informed, discerning!"); and there was nothing else. But alas, as soon as The Economist started with their tech and software focus spreads it quickly dawned on me that these guys just know how to sound authoritative. That was a bad move on their part.
The Economist is largely owned by the Rothschild and Agnelli families.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#114Some 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…
> These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites.
Even worse. They also own most of the local papers too.
What's even more troubling is that there will be more consolidation of the news industry in the future...
> It looks like it's going to be many decades before these giant media outlets finally lose their relevance.
Except that traditional media is moving into social media. Not only that, they have the ears of the social media magnates.
Google/facebook/reddit/etc have all had talks with traditional media companies and have started "favoring" traditional media in their algorithms/search results/etc. There are far more "nytimes/WaPo/etc" on social media today than a year ago or 5 years ago. Even on HN, look how much traditional media links we have here.
I don't think traditional media will go anywhere. As you said, they serve a valuable purpose - brainwashing large segments of the population.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#115They stir the pot because people consume their content like it's going out of style. It will only get worse. Don't give them the eyballs, clicks, views or anything else they can measure and generate revenue from.
Everyone of us have more important things to do in life.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#116Some 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…
Curious what are your sources. I have a few friends who are also anti-big news outlets and they link me to their alternative sources, which some of them are VERY ultra-right-wing outlets.
Why let your self get wrapped up in global or national issues (real or fake). Instead, focus your efforts locally on things that make a difference to you every day.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#117A long time back, I bootstrapped a SaaS which was useful to my reporter friends. So I tried selling this to what I thought were small town local newspapers. I called up the editorial or business development contacts listed in the paper; whenever I got hold of them, I was redirected to Headquarters,which always was some sort conglomerate enterprise. That is when I learnt the hard way there is not such thing as a local…
Keep looking, near me is http://www.kirklandreporter.com and http://www.nwnews.com. If you can't find one start one, leverage the software you built.
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Brietbart and oann have strong republican bias but mises and reason don't? /:
From what I've read on Mises they are big on numbers, data, citing sources and logic. They don't deserve to be grouped with the others.
Mises are shills for failed economic theories and peddle dumb conspiracy theories.
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#119A 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…
PBS?
Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
#120Some 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?
I have a hard time finding news sources I can stand; basically all the major outlets just turn me off with their bias and verbose irrelevant analysis. Over the part year I've collected a few lesser known options you may find valuable too:
https://theintercept.com - mostly anti-propaganda efforts
https://phys.org - an aggregator often linking to primary sources
https://www.currentaffairs.org - political opinions that generally seem thought out
http://www.realclear(politics|world|*).com - a network of aggregators with a good balance
http://evonomics.com - economic perspectives I also don't mind reading.
I would really love to find more options - especially something in a debate format so I can judge arguments from multiple sides on an issue.