In a message dated 7/1/05 12:15:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Had you heard that 
> only 5 people now own our major media? (IS this true?)

Haha, this is funny. While media concentration is a valid issue, a
perspective that holds a meannigful possibility that "5 people" own
the media show such a total lack of knowledge about media ownership,
it would be hilarious if not so sad.

Major media, TV stations, major newspapers and magazines, key internet
sites, radio, satelite radio, satellite and cable TV, film and TV
producers / distributors, book publishers, music companies, etc are
virtually all owned by large corporations, not individuals. Some
corporations do have individuals with substantial power -- Redstone,
Murdoch, etc. But world media, and/or US media ownership is quite a
bit more diverse than five corporations and certainly is not
controlled by five individuals. But for one to have such a, IMO,
limited "robber barron" conspiratoral perspective of "five media
rulers" is telling.

From your rant, I almost expect the next point to be is that "the
majority of these five people are Jews. And we can't let this to
continue." While I am not linking your cooment to such anti-semetic
"directions,  the point is, bigoted and conspiracy arguments often
have simiar "total disconnects" from reality in their logic/fact chain.



I hope you were not attributing the statement about 5 people owning the  major media to me!


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