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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

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Post by notadoc »

This is blatantly inaccurate and outdated, which is not to say that there is not massive media conglomeration but rather the information presented is inaccurate.

This link is also reblog spam from a BusinessInsider reblog spam from some other "frugaldad" (FRUGALDAD sounds like a legitimate source of media conglomeration news, doesn't it?) site from 2011, and even BI stated it was inaccurate and outdated back then making it even more so now in 2017.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...

As for the inaccurate info... for starters....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_NBC_Universal_b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBCUniversal

Anyway. Nobody bothering to check on this stuff, even in a highly intelligent community like HN, is a great example of how inaccurate or untruthful garbage spreads online.

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by RodericDay »

akvadrako wrote: post #120
losvedir wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Current Affairs is insanely high quality. I endorse it fully.

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by brightball »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #118
brightball wrote: post #85

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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.

Which failed economic theories and failed how exactly?

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by sethjgore »

Symmetry wrote: post #60
ytNumbers wrote: post #40

Some 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…

Well, no they certainly don't have the best interests of America at heart but mostly they're driven by greed. The owners of US newspapers are generally happy to give their news in liberal cities a liberal slant and their news in conservative cities a conservative slant. The problem used to be a lot more intense than it is now with competing newspapers being mouthpieces for competing political parties. But the rise of…

What do you mean regarding "philosopher kings"?

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by MicroBerto »

theWatcher37 wrote: post #87
skrowl wrote: post #64

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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.

OAN's talking heads are obviously conservative, but if you want a REAL news reel with no trash, theirs is easily the quickest and most informative. And they play that more than pundits, which is nice.

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by dredmorbius »

grenoire wrote: post #82
dredmorbius wrote: post #39

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It is a channel. With 2 billion viewers / readers / listeners.

The two billion figure is not an accurate one. Two billion users (not individual persons) rely entirely on Facebook as their primary source of news. I don't think the relevant figure is more than a few millions.

I'm sorry, but what part of this are you disagreeing with?

That Facebook is a media channel?

That it doesn't in fact have 2 billion MUA, as claimed?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/

That some other channel is more significant?

That there is another information channel to which a similar number of people dedicate 50 minutes of attention to daily?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/facebook-bends-t...

"I don't think" is ... a rather weak level of substantiation.

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by zghst »

rdudek wrote: post #56
ytNumbers wrote: post #40

Some 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.

What I usually do is keep in touch with mainstream news and then go to opposing news and a variety of blogs/social media commentators trying to cover all sides. MSM is garbage. Interesting journalism happens at ProPublica, The Intercept, Monocle, heck I even read Breitbart.

Re: 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

weirdstuff wrote: post #108
dtech wrote: post #72

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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.

What scholarly works are you referring to? I can only find one book and it is misusing "liberal" as a synonym for "left-wing". Left-wing authoritarianism is not inherently contradictory, but liberal authoritarianism is.
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