--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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.
check it out: http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/ Considering the major TV news outlets Rory was not far off. Please note the previously unheard of consolidation with regard to newspapers, radio and leisure mags also. Quite a cozy little club, dont'cha think? 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/
