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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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It seems like in today’s world there are fewer and fewer people making choices for the greater good. What I mean to say is that everything in our world seems to be able to be consolidated. The media of course is no exception to this trend with only 6 major companies dictating about 90% of the media we have access to. In less than 30 years the number of companies providing us with our media has dropped from 50 to just 6. The six companies consisting of GE, New-corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. If your wondering who owns the major networks its CBS of course, GE owns NBC, News-corp owns fox, and Disney owns ABC.
A reason for concern is the gross misrepresentation have so few companies controlling so much causes. According to today’s infogaphic Media Consolidaiton: The Illusion of Choice there is one media executive to every 850,000 subscribers. It’s kind of like representative government except you don’t get to choose who represents you and there is no better option.
If the free market had truly decided who was the winner and loser I would have no problem with there just being six companies running our media. However the path to success for these companies was not so honorable. Some of these companies even though they’re some of the most profitable in the world don’t even end up paying taxes. Crazy how the average citizen who probably only makes enough to get by has to pay more proportionately than one of these powerhouses. |
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(image) http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/media-infographic.jpg
the infographic itself is in that link. kind of a big image so i didnt want to post the image directly onto the forums.
anyhow, thought this was rather interesting, even if some of us already had an idea of this worked.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Syd Lexia is not impressed.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
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"Spanish bombs, yot' quierro y finito
Yo te querda oh ma corazón
Oh ma corazón, oh ma corazón" - The Clash, Spanish Bombs |
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Alowishus
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Drew Linky
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It wouldn't be so bad if people didn't absorb all of the crap these companies show. Half the stuff on Disney doesn't have anything remotely Disney-like in it.
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https://discord.gg/homestuck is where you can find me literally 99% of the time. Stop on by if you feel like it, we're a nice crowd. |
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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| Syd Lexia is not impressed. |
Syd Lexia is just ticked off Rupert Murdoch won't return his calls about a merger.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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He bought MySpace! I'm a better investment.
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
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As a future filmmaker, I won't be satisfied until I take the remaining 10% and go to war with the other 90%. There will be no survivors.
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I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can. |
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| He bought MySpace! I'm a better investment. |
Damn right. You get way more activity than MySpace.
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| He bought MySpace! I'm a better investment. |
Damn right. You get way more activity than MySpace. |
In some aspects that's actually true
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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It always felt like the "Mrs. Robinson fact" was true, but I never thought it actually was.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
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I find the entire thing highly suspect considering there's an arithmetic error early on. It says:
233 media executives control the diet of 277 mil Americans. It then claims that is 1 media exec to 850,000 people. The fact that 277 > 233 should immediately tell us that's wrong. If those 2 numbers are correct, it's 1 media exec to 1,190,000 people. The real number supports this guy's case better, too, so you think he'd get it fucking right.
Also, the comparisons make no fucking sense. "Such and such is as much money as it would take to buy every NFL team 12 times." First of all, how do you know that? I'm guessing most of those teams aren't for sale to begin with unles you pay a lot more than their alleged worth. And even if it's accurate...so? That doesn't tell us anything meaningful.
Fucking propaganda.
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