Who Owns the News?

[Wind Song]

Let's discuss. Who do you trust and why?

We know Rupert Murdoch owns Fox and he dictates a right wing slant. I have no problem with that. I have a problem with Fox claiming they are "fair and balanced" when they clearly aren't.


http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart

[jimnyc]

Each individual entity is owned differently, and edited differently, and some have simply news and others offer news and pundits. There is no "perfect" news source, as they are much too large and have too many hands in the cookie jar. Some are better and some are worse, but no one "owns" them outside of each individual - in other words, no party/individual/group owns the media in general, as many seem to think.

Best bet - use multiple sources to get your news, and even foreign sources if need be. Mix and match and the truth is always there.

[Wind Song]

We went from 50 media companies to six megacompanies. Our information is in the hands of very few. That affects what happens in our country.

[jimnyc]

We went from 50 media companies to six megacompanies. Our information is in the hands of very few. That affects what happens in our country.

And yet there are thousands and thousands and thousands of individual news stations around the country. Each is independently run, even if somewhere up the chain they have a minimal amount of owners. To think the information coming out of so many stations is controlled by a handful of people is naive. You're probably talking MILLIONS of pages of news every single day, and thousands and thousands of editors and such going over each before air. It's quite naive to think a few people could possibly control so much. Then we have worldwide news, owned differently, broadcasting mostly the same news, sometimes a little different. But one would be even more naive if they thought this was also controlled worldwide.

[Wind Song]

And yet there are thousands and thousands and thousands of individual news stations around the country. Each is independently run, even if somewhere up the chain they have a minimal amount of owners. To think the information coming out of so many stations is controlled by a handful of people is naive. You're probably talking MILLIONS of pages of news every single day, and thousands and thousands of editors and such going over each before air. It's quite naive to think a few people could possibly control so much. Then we have worldwide news, owned differently, broadcasting mostly the same news, sometimes a little different. But one would be even more naive if they thought this was also controlled worldwide.

Seven banking families own the media. Whoever controls the media, controls how Americans think.

[jimnyc]

Seven banking families own the media. Whoever controls the media, controls how Americans think.

Only fucking idiots allow themselves to believe such rubbish and allow another to "control" how they think.

[Dilloduck]

Seven banking families own the media. Whoever controls the media, controls how Americans think.

What message are they sending out ?

[Wind Song]

Only fucking idiots allow themselves to believe such rubbish and allow another to "control" how they think.

I didn't call you any names today.

[Trigg]

I didn't call you any names today.

he didn't call you any either.

[Wind Song]

he didn't call you any either.

Originally Posted by jimnyc
Only fucking idiots allow themselves to believe such rubbish and allow another to "control" how they think.

[Trigg]

Seven banking families own the media. Whoever controls the media, controls how Americans think.

Only fucking idiots allow themselves to believe such rubbish and allow another to "control" how they think.

Why do you feel that was directed at you????

Do you let others control how you think?

If not, than I don't think he was talking about you.

[Wind Song]

Why do you feel that was directed at you????

Do you let others control how you think?

If not, than I don't think he was talking about you.

He intended it as a personal insult to me. He called me a fucking idiot.

He completely ignored the point I was making that ALL the news we see, hear and read in America is owned by six entities only.

and he thinks I"M impossible.

[Trigg]

He intended it as a personal insult to me. He completely ignored the point I was making that ALL the news we see, hear and read in America is owned by six entities only.

No, he point out that with the internet, information is available from thousands of different sources.

You perceived it as an insult.

[Wind Song]

No, he point out that with the internet, information is available from thousands of different sources.

You perceived it as an insult.

The iinternet is one of the few sources we have for information. Yes, I felt insulted by his post. And yes, I think that was his intention.

[jimnyc]

He intended it as a personal insult to me. He called me a fucking idiot.

He completely ignored the point I was making that ALL the news we see, hear and read in America is owned by six entities only.

and he thinks I"M impossible.

I ignored nothing, I merely corrected you. You're tossing out rhetoric, as if we are all somehow controlled by the media, or that the media is rigged, and that they tell us what to think. I simply pointed out that anyone who believes that, and who thinks they are told what to think, is a fucking idiot. If the shoe fits...

But to add on further, there are probably 20 independent news agencies here in the NYC area alone, let alone nationwide and then worldwide. And no, these are not all owned by the same entities. You're falling for rhetoric and then trying to pass it off as fact here, and it's not fact.