Bob Sneidar wrote:
> On Oct 15, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> We will never have a reason-based discussion of substance abuse
>> in our culture as long as our media is owned by a small number
>> of companies, some of whom make booze and all of whom earn big
>> bucks from booze advertising.
>
> Just poking around in Google, I didn't find any references to
> any alcohol companies or breweries owning any of the major media
> outlets like ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN of Fox. Do you have any
> references I could look at? This interests me.
Seagram's media holdings include Universal Studios, MCA, PolyGram, and
Deutsche Grammophon. Seagram also gained control of a number of
Universal theme parks.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram>
That and other info on the ever-shrinking number of media ownership
companies in this colorful chart:
<http://www.mediaindustrystudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/global-concentration_the-media-ownership-chart2.jpg>
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