--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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!
No, MD I hold you to be much wiser than that. Bizzare values sometimes, IMO, but you tend to adhere to facts, most of the time. I believe it was Rory who brought this point up about five individuals owning the media. Not that he was adovcating this view, but said he had "heard it" and was asking if it was true. My point was that having such minimal perspective on media and business to know such claims are quite bogus, while waxing elegant and making major advocacy points on media etc, just points, IMO, to the emptiness of the larger perspectives. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
