Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?
In America today, we are more "connected" than ever. The average American
watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours
watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and
surfing the Internet.
If someone could control the production of all of that media, that would
make them immensely powerful. They would literally be in a position to tell
people what to think. Well, what if I told you that there are just six
enormous media conglomerates that combine to produce about 90 percent of
all the media that Americans consume.
Would that alarm you? It should alarm you.
The truth is that our attitudes, opinions and beliefs are greatly shaped by
what we allow into our minds. After all, they don't call it "programming"
for no reason. Even those of us that realize that we are connected to "the
matrix" probably greatly underestimate the tremendous influence that the
media has over us.
We live at a time when it is absolutely imperative to think for ourselves,
but most Americans are being absolutely overwhelmed with information and
seem more than content to let others do their thinking for them.
Sadly, this is greatly contributing to the downfall of our society.
And of course the mainstream media desperately does not want you to look at
"the man behind the curtain". They just want you to stay plugged into the
"programming" that they are feeding you without asking any questions.
Fortunately, a growing minority of Americans are waking up and are starting
to reject the mainstream media. An increasing number of people are
beginning to recognize that the mainstream media is the mouthpiece of the
establishment and that it is promoting the agenda of the establishment.
So why is the mainstream media so bad?
The following are 7 things about the mainstream media that they do not want
you to know...
1 - The Mainstream Media
...Has Very Deep Ties To The Establishment
Did you know that the president of CBS and the president of ABC both have
brothers that are top officials in the Obama administration?
The big news networks have developed an almost incestuous relationship with
the federal government in recent years. But of course the same could be
said of the relationship that the media has with the big corporations that
own stock in their parent companies and that advertise on their networks.
This is one of the reasons why we very rarely ever see any hard hitting
stories on the big networks anymore.
The flow of information through the corporate-dominated media is very
tightly controlled, and there are a lot of gatekeepers that make sure that
the "wrong stories" don't get put out to the public.
As a result, many of the "big stories" that have come out in recent years
were originally broken by the alternative media.
2 - The Mainstream Media
...Gets Things Wrong Very Frequently
Even prominent members of the mainstream media admit that this is the case.
For example, during a recent speech at Quinnipiac University CBS anchor
Scott Pelley confessed that journalists in the mainstream media "are
getting big stories wrong, over and over again"...
"Let me take the first arrow: During our coverage of Newtown, I sat on my
set and I reported that Nancy Lanza was a teacher at the school. And that
her son had attacked her classroom.
It's a hell of a story, but it was dead wrong. Now, I was the managing
editor, I made the decision to go ahead with that and I did, and that's
what I said, and I was absolutely wrong.
So let me just take the first arrow here."
3 - The American Public
...Does Not Consider The Media To Be Very Trustworthy
Trust in the mainstream media has definitely been slipping.
In fact, a Gallup poll taken last year found that distrust of the media had
reached an all-time high. According to that poll, 60 percent of Americans
"have little or no trust" that the media is reporting the news accurately.
A separate Rasmussen Reports survey found that only 6 percent of all
Americans consider the news media to be "very trustworthy".
Hopefully this trend will accelerate and a lot more people will stop
trusting the media blindly.
4 - The Mainstream Media And The Politicians
...That They Worship Hate The Fact That They Cannot Control Internet News
Sites
In the old days, the mainstream media had a virtual monopoly on the news.
But these days, anyone with an Internet connection can put up a news site,
and this is driving the establishment absolutely bonkers. For example,
Barack Obama is known to have a great dislike for the alternative media.
The following is from a recent WND article...
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd says President Obama was making it
“clear” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend how he
feels about the rise of Internet news sites like Politico, Buzzfeed and…
well, WND.
“He hates it.”
Appearing on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning following Saturday night’s
media, politics and celebrity soiree, Todd explained the president’s
disdain for independent online news sources was showing during his speech.
“It did seem… I thought his pot shots, joke-wise, and then the serious
stuff about the Internet, the rise of the Internet media and social media
and all that stuff - he hates it, OK? He hates this part of the media,”
Todd said.
“He really thinks that the, sort of, the buzzification - this isn’t just
about Buzzfeed or Politico and all this stuff - he thinks that sort of
coverage of political media has hurt political discourse. He hates it. And
I think he was just trying to make that clear last night.”
5 - The Mainstream Media Is Extremely Liberal
When it comes to politics, the mainstream media is far more liberal than
the general population is.
For example, one survey found that 41 percent of American voters believe
that the average reporter is more liberal than they are, while only 18
percent believe that the average reporter is more conservative than they
are.
A very disturbing UCLA study on media bias discovered that the vast
majority of media outlets are "left of center"...
Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS’
“Evening News,” The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking
second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall
Street Journal.
And even MSNBC has confirmed the liberal bias of the media.
According to MSNBC, mainstream journalists are far more likely to donate
their own money to Democrats than they are to Republicans...
MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from
2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public
records of the Federal Election Commission.
Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to
Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both
parties.
6 - Six Mammoth Media Corporations
...Produce About 90 Percent Of The Media That Americans Consume
As I mentioned at the top of this article, there are six giant media
behemoths that control almost all of the media that we consume.
These corporate giants own,
television networks
cable channels
movie studios
newspapers
magazines
publishing houses
video game makers
music labels
even many of our favorite websites
The media ownership chart posted below originally comes from a previous
article that I authored entitled "Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic
Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read", but
it has been updated to reflect some of the latest information.
The power that these companies have is so vast that it is hard to put into
words...
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 02:51:07 GMT, Kirby Grant wrote:
> On 2-Jun-2013, "Same Shit; Different Day; Fuck Obama; Hey, Hey, Hey"
> <
Proggie...@everywhere.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 00:06:48 GMT, Kirby Grant wrote:
>>
>>> Quite laughable. Every Democrat knows that when I say that faux snooze
>>> is a
>>> shill for the Republican party that I have not deviated from the truth
>>> one
>>> bit.
>>
>> Do every one of you girly boys know that the bulk of the mainstream media
>> has been slanted left since circa 1960, going back to the venerable Walter
>> Cronkite who never met a Marxist banana republic he didn't admire?
>
> Nonsense. It doesn't slant left. It merely repulses the erroneous and
> deceitful doctrine of the right. The thing is, there isn't a bit about the
> right that isn't just plain wrong. They have NEVER EVER produced any good.
>
>
>>
>>>So generally they are in agreement with me.
>>
>> Assholes think alike, so what?
>
> No. Educated people know that faux snooze is biased towards the Republican
> party. You uneducated people just don't recognize that.
>
>>
>>> It is YOU who need to
>>> convince them somehow
>>
>> No cupcake, it works like this: you make the claim; the burden to prove is
>> on you.
>>
>
> Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. What cereal box did you get your diploma from? I didn't
> make the claim. Millions of people are aware that faux snooze is biased
> towards Republicans. But what is also true is that there isn't a shred of
> evidence against that or else you would have brought it up. But you know, as
> well as everyone else, that it is biased towards the Republican party, so
> the ONLY thing you can ever do is just blow smoke and accuse everyone else
> of being wrong. Faux snooze would even carry reporting from WND and Alex
> Jones if they thought that they could maintain their profits.
>
>
>>>In the end it is ONLY
>>> Republicans who will ever claim that faux snooze doesn't shill for their
>>> party.
>>
>> Registered democrat beginning in 1965; just recently changed (March 2013)
>> to Independent or as my State calls it officially "Unafilliated." My take
>> on Fox is that their editorializing leans right, but their journalism is
>> faaaarrrrr more objective than any in the mainstream media.
>>
>
> So you decided to spurn all that is proper and decent and accept
> degradation, lies and vast ignorance. Poor choice. But in this country
> everyone has the right to be more stupid than a box of rocks.
>
>>>real Americans - i.e. Democrats.
>>
>> Real Americans don't support multiculturalism, but rather the "melting
>> pot." Real Americans don't support redistribution of wealth. Real
>> Americans support equal opportunity, but not equal outcome or equal
>> success. Real Americans believe in rewarding merit, not preferential
>> treatment.
>>
>> In other words, real Americans do not support today's Dem platform. The
>> dem party is not the party I joined in 1965 as did my ancestors previously
>> who are probably turning over in their graves. It ain't the party of
>> Adlai
>> Stevenson, Scoop Jackson, or JFK.
>>
>
> Who cares about Stevenson or JFK. They are both dead and almost forgotten.
> History just isn't all that important. Interesting perhaps, but not
> important. All that matters is now and the future. The mistakes of the past
> can't be corrected, so the only thing we can do is look forward and try to
> make things better. We're certainly better at it than Republicans who don't
> even pretend to make anything better. They just prefer to stick their head
> in the past and pretend that they can turn back the clock to when they were
> actually liked by a few.
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