Your opinions... Cleverly crafted by a handful Corporations

[pack3tg0st]

I know I've done this subject to death... But I thought I would post some of this information, along with some of the research stuff I've done for those who wish to see exactly how "tangled" Corporate america is... and how just a few people decide which information you're allowed to access...

I'll list some of the finer details in spoiler form... for those who don't want to sift through long lists :P

Anyway, 90% of everything you see, read, or hear... comes from just a few companies... They control not only TV, but Movies, Book Publishing, School Textbooks, Newspapers, Scientific Journals, and News Media stations... Here is the list of the parent companies, along with some of the longer lists of subsidiaries in spoiler...

Disney- Aside from being a massively popular Movie Studio, they also own [spoiler:9ez81t7f]ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
Hyperion book publishers.
Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

AT&T- Now Proud owners of DirectTV, and have virtually monopolized the various forms of transmission of information.

News Corporation- Owned by Rupert Murdock... Newscorp has a HUGE influence in all things media. Aside from owning Harper Collins Publishing, Fox, and 20th Century Fox... they own

Newspapers [spoiler:9ez81t7f]AUSTRALASIA
Daily Telegraph
Fiji Times
Gold Coast Bulletin
Herald Sun
Newsphotos
Newspix
Newstext
NT News
Post-Courier
Sunday Herald Sun
Sunday Mail
Sunday Tasmanian
Sunday Territorian
Sunday Times
The Advertiser
The Australian
The Courier-Mail
The Mercury
The Sunday Mail
The Sunday Telegraph
Weekly Times
UNITED KINGDOM
News International
News of the World
The Sun
The Sunday Times
The Times
Times Literary Supplement

UNITED STATES
New York Post

INTERNATIONAL
The Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

Television Stations [spoiler:9ez81t7f]FOX Business Network
Fox Movie Channel
FOX News Channel
FOX College Sports
FOX Sports Enterprises
FOX Sports En Espanol
FOX Sports Net
FOX Soccer Channel
Fox Reality Channel
Fuel TV
FX
National Geographic Channel United States National Geographic Channel Worldwide
Speed
Stats, Inc.[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

And a list of Misc. stuff that I can't quite categorize [spoiler:9ez81t7f]AmericanIdol.com
AskMen
Broadsystem
careerone.com.au
CARSguide.com.au
Fox.com
Fox Interactive Media
FoxSports.com
FoxSports.com.au
hulu.com
IGN Entertainment
kSolo
Milkround
MySpace
National Rugby League
NDS
News.com.au
News Digital Media
News Outdoor
Rotten Tomatoes
Scout
Spring Widgets
truelocal.com.au
WhatIfSports[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

Sony- Major Music and motion picture producer

General Electric- Yes, GE... [spoiler:9ez81t7f]NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

Time Warner - Which until about a week ago, included AOL... But Time-Warner owns CBS, TNT, TBS, HBO, Warner Brothers, and much more [spoiler:9ez81t7f]CNN
Cinemax,
Turner Classic Movies
Warner Brothers Television
Cartoon Network
Sega Channel
Comedy Central (50%)
E! (49%)
Court TV (50%).
HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

Viacom: Television producers... but also [spoiler:9ez81t7f]Paramount Television
Spelling Television
MTV
VH-1
Showtime
The Movie Channel
UPN (joint owner)
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Sundance Channel (joint owner)
Flix.
20 major market US stations.
Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks.
Simon & Schuster Publishing.[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]
And Last but not least: Bertelsmann, who aside from producing many Television shows, also own Random House Publishing.

These 7 companies have a hand in 90% of everything you read, watch, and hear...

Now for shits and grins... we look at where most news stories come from: The Associated Press.

The AP is a non-profit organization, comprised of a board of directors...

AP Board of Directors: [spoiler:9ez81t7f]William Dean Singleton – Chairman
Vice Chairman and CEO
MediaNews Group Inc.
Denver, Colorado

Mary Junck– Vice Chairman
President and CEO
Lee Enterprises, Inc.
Davenport, Iowa

Donna J. Barrett
President and chief executive officer
Community Newspaper Holdings
Birmingham, AL

Elizabeth Brenner
Publisher and President
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Executive Vice President
Journal Communications Inc.
Milwaukee, WI

Craig A. Dubow
President and chief executive officer
Gannett Co., Inc.
McLean, VA

R. Jack Fishman
Publisher and Editor
Citizen Tribune
Morristown, Tennessee

Boisfeuillet (Bo) Jones
Publisher and CEO
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.

David Lord
President
Pioneer Newspapers, Inc.
Seattle, Washington

R. John Mitchell
Publisher
Rutland Herald
Rutland, Vermont

Steven O. Newhouse
Chairman,
Advance.Net
New York, New York

David M. Paxton
President and CEO
Paxton Media
Paducah, KY

Charles V. Pittman
Senior Vice President-Publishing
Schurz Communications Inc.
South Bend, Indiana

Gary Pruitt
Chairman, President and CEO
The McClatchy Company
Sacramento, California

Michael E. Reed
CEO
GateHouse Media, Inc.
Fairport, New York

Jon Rust
Publisher
Southeast Missourian
Co-president, Rust Communications
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Steven R. Swartz
President
Hearst Newspapers
Senior Vice President
Hearst Corporation
New York, NY

Paul C. Tash
Chairman and CEO
Times Publishing Company
Editor
St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg, FL

David Westin
President
ABC News
New York, New York

H. Graham Woodlief
President, Publishing Division
Vice President,
Media General Inc.
Richmond, Virginia

Sam Zell
Chairman and chief executive officer
Tribune Company
Chicago, IL[/spoiler:9ez81t7f]

Amazing how the board of directors is chocked full of representatives from these 8 companies and their subsidiaries... That'll give you something to think about next time you see the (AP) next to a story...

Now, with 8 companies giving you what you're allowed to see/hear/read... and Writing the news... does it seem viable that any media of any form will go against the best interests of these groups?

I just thought I'd post this information, in a way to make up for my lack of posting the last week or so :P I've been balls deep in research...

This is still continuing research into my theories on propaganda... feel free to contribute if you see something I missed...

[pack3tg0st]

Basically, this information is worthless... until you start drawing the connections between the media outlets, and their non-media interests...

For example: Newscorp is owned by Rupert Murdock, who happens to be on the Board of Directors for Phillip Morris (Marlboro cigs).

CBS is related to Westinghouse Electric, who has strong holdings in the energy/Nuclear Power world...

There's also something to be said for these companies and politics...

GE, who owns NBC, donated $479,454 to Obama's Election Campaign in 2008...

Time Warner: $547,951

Do you think a station who's parent company makes the top 20 list for campaign contributions is going to fairly report on the candidates?

[Eyeforalie]

Nice post pac! You have defiantly NOT beaten this topic to death. This is all very useful.

Nice job with the spoilers :)

This all gives me the chills....

[pack3tg0st]

Thanks eye :P

Something interesting I ran across just now though...

McCain's top campaign contributions come from a VERY interesting list of people...

[spoiler:20riu0ku]Merrill Lynch $371,295
Citigroup Inc $320,251
Morgan Stanley $271,152
Goldman Sachs $230,095
JPMorgan Chase & Co $225,557
US Government $207,829
AT&T Inc $194,913
UBS AG $182,079
Credit Suisse Group $179,053
Wachovia Corp $169,057
PricewaterhouseCoopers $167,900
US Army $162,870
Bank of America $155,251
Blank Rome LLP $154,426
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $150,396
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437
FedEx Corp $132,974
US Dept of Defense $131,675
Lehman Brothers $125,357
Bear Stearns $117,498[/spoiler:20riu0ku]

Edit: lol yah, the spoilers make it easier to read... instead of looking like a massive list :p

[pack3tg0st]

Just to be fair...

Here's a list of Obama's contributers...

[spoiler:2le1im7q]University of California $1,385,675
Goldman Sachs $980,945
Microsoft Corp $806,299
Harvard University $793,460
Google Inc $790,564
Citigroup Inc $657,268
JPMorgan Chase & Co $650,758
Stanford University $580,904
Sidley Austin LLP $574,938
Time Warner $547,951
National Amusements Inc $541,251
WilmerHale $524,292
UBS AG $522,019
IBM Corp $518,557
Skadden, Arps et al $510,274
Columbia University $503,566
Morgan Stanley $490,873
US Government $479,956
General Electric $479,454
Latham & Watkins $467,311[/spoiler:2le1im7q]

[Eyeforalie]

"US Government $207,829"
"US Government $479,956"

LOL!!! What the fuck!?

Who said my money could be donated to either of those campaigns?

Like I said...Chills.

[pack3tg0st]

Even more interestingly:

From Obama's income report:


On January 9, 2009, Barack Obama executed an amendment to his previously disclosed, December 2004 Agreement with Crown Publishing Group. Under this agreement, a non-fiction work, the subject to be determined, would not be delivered during his term in office and the schedule for any future book publications would be accordingly revised.

On January 15, 2009, Barack Obama Approved a $500,000 advance against royalties under an agreement between Crown Publishing Group, a Division of Random House, Inc., and Random House Children's Books, for an abridged version of Dreams From My Father suitable for middle grade or young adult readers, as proposed by the publisher in 2008. Royalties for the book are 15% of the U.S. Sales Price for hardcover book sales; 7.5% to 10% of the U.S. price for trade paperback book sales, 10% of the U.S. price for the mass-market paperback book sales, and other standard royalties.

Source: http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00009638_2008.pdf

edit to add source

[Eyeforalie]

Ummmmm......

No wonder you dont sleep.

Chilllllllllly.

[pack3tg0st]

Who said my money could be donated to either of those campaigns?


LOL its not your money per se... Its contributions made by employees of the government...

[Cogburn]

http://www.sourcewatch.org

Great website. If you ever have a question about who is behind what group that is trying to sway opinion, this website has it.

[pack3tg0st]

Oh yah, Sourcewatch and PRwatch are friggan awesome sites :P

makes it way easier to research some of this stuff

[theeindiee]

My opinions are MINE!!! Oh wait.... didn't somebody sell me this language I'm speaking?

Didn't somebody sell me the idea of the color, red?

Didn't somebody sell me on the notion that those big broccoli looking things coming out of the ground are trees?

So... what's left of you when you strip away all the things you've been force-fed by different forms of "media"?

What's REALLY you? Do YOU really exist, or did somebody also sell you on the idea of "I am"?

It's a big scary realization when you notice that everything you know has been pre-packaged for you...

[Cogburn]

GREEN RED

There are no friends everywhere.

[theeindiee]

the power of suggestion....

[Cogburn]

It doesn't take a weatherman to tell which way the mind blows.

[pack3tg0st]

I just found it a little shocking that all media came down to about 8 companies...

Not just TV... but Music, Newspapers, Textbooks, books, and even comic books...

all from 8 companies...

edit: 8... not 7... sigh...

[hp]

Media, advertising dollars. This is why the internet is a problems for them.

Could it be the McCain was heavily backed by those who didn't want regs in the financial market place. We see what that got us. But then Obama etal came through with the bail out bucks anyway. They got their money.

[pack3tg0st]

Yah, the internets could be a problem for them...

But thats why I included AT&T and such...

They will figure out a way... they've already castrated ATS...

Propaganda 2.0 is alive and well...

[pack3tg0st]

Case in point: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/israel-foreign-ministry-media


we know that the Israeli foreign ministry itself is orchestrating propaganda efforts designed to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information.

[boycotteverything]

Great work, Pack. All that oxycotin must have had an effect! The noise machine is designed for the purpose of making it ever more difficult to think outside the Borg. But you're proving that resistance is not futile.

[pack3tg0st]

Thanks BE...

Sadly, It only bears fruit if people will listen... But with them having the monopoly on information...

Anyway, I'm prepared to throw myself into the gears if it will make them stop... sadly, i'm not sure that anyone will ever be afforded the chance.