<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?\u00a0 In America today, we are more “connected” than ever.\u00a0 The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the Internet.\u00a0 If someone could control the production of all of that media, that would make them immensely powerful.\u00a0 They would literally be in a position to tell people what to think.\u00a0 Well, what if I told you that there are just six enormous media conglomerates that combine to produce about 90 percent of all the media that Americans consume.\u00a0 Would that alarm you?\u00a0 It should alarm you.\u00a0 The truth is that our attitudes, opinions and beliefs are greatly shaped by what we allow into our minds.\u00a0 After all, they don’t call it “programming” for no reason.\u00a0 Even those of us that realize that we are connected to “the matrix” probably greatly underestimate the tremendous influence that the media has over us.\u00a0 We live at a time when it is absolutely imperative to think for ourselves, but most Americans are being absolutely overwhelmed with information and seem more than content to let others do their thinking for them.\u00a0 Sadly, this is greatly contributing to the downfall of our society.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n And of course the mainstream media desperately does not want you to look at “the man behind the curtain”.\u00a0 They just want you to stay plugged into the “programming” that they are feeding you without asking any questions.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, a growing minority of Americans are waking up and are starting to reject the mainstream media.\u00a0 An increasing number of people are beginning to recognize that the mainstream media is the mouthpiece of the establishment and that it is promoting the agenda of the establishment.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n So why is the mainstream media so bad?\u00a0 The following are 7 things about the mainstream media that they do not want you to know…<\/span><\/p>\n Did you know that the president of CBS and the president of ABC both have<\/strong><\/span> brothers<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that are top officials in the Obama administration?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The big news networks have developed an almost incestuous relationship with the federal government in recent years.\u00a0 But of course the same could be said of the relationship that the media has with the big corporations that own stock in their parent companies and that advertise on their networks.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This is one of the reasons why we very rarely ever see any hard hitting stories on the big networks anymore.\u00a0 The flow of information through the corporate-dominated media is very tightly controlled, and there are a lot of gatekeepers that make sure that the “wrong stories” don’t get put out to the public.\u00a0 As a result, many of the “big stories” that have come out in recent years were originally broken by the alternative media.<\/span><\/p>\n Even prominent members of the mainstream media admit that this is the case.\u00a0 For example, during a recent speech at Quinnipiac University CBS anchor Scott Pelley confessed that journalists in the mainstream media “are getting big stories wrong, <\/strong><\/span>over and over again”<\/strong><\/span><\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n “Let me take the first arrow: During our coverage of Newtown, I sat on my set and I reported that Nancy Lanza was a teacher at the school. And that her son had attacked her classroom. It’s a hell of a story, but it was dead wrong. Now, I was the managing editor, I made the decision to go ahead with that and I did, and that’s what I said, and I was absolutely wrong. So let me just take the first arrow here.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Trust in the mainstream media has definitely been slipping.\u00a0 In fact, a Gallup poll taken last year found that distrust of the media had reached an all-time<\/strong><\/span> high<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 According to that poll, 60 <\/strong><\/span>percent<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of Americans “have little or no trust” that the media is reporting the news accurately.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A separate Rasmussen Reports survey found that only 6<\/strong><\/span> percent<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of all Americans consider the news media to be “very trustworthy”.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Hopefully this trend will accelerate and a lot more people will stop trusting the media blindly.<\/span><\/p>\n In the old days, the mainstream media had a virtual monopoly on the news.\u00a0 But these days, anyone with an Internet connection can put up a news site, and this is driving the establishment absolutely bonkers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n For example, Barack Obama is known to have a great dislike for the alternative media.\u00a0 The following is from a recent <\/strong><\/span>WND <\/span><\/strong><\/span>article<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span>..<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd says President Obama was making it \u201cclear\u201d at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner over the weekend how he feels about the rise of Internet news sites like Politico, Buzzfeed and \u2026 well, WND.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe hates it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Appearing on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Sunday morning following Saturday night\u2019s media, politics and celebrity soiree, Todd explained the president\u2019s disdain for independent online news sources was showing during his speech.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt did seem \u2026 I thought his pot shots, joke-wise, and then the serious stuff about the Internet, the rise of the Internet media and social media and all that stuff \u2013 he hates it, OK? He hates this part of the media,\u201d Todd said. \u201cHe really thinks that the, sort of, the buzzification \u2013 this isn\u2019t just about Buzzfeed or Politico and all this stuff \u2013 he thinks that sort of coverage of political media has hurt political discourse. He hates it. And I think he was just trying to make that clear last night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When it comes to politics, the mainstream media is far more liberal than the general population is.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n For example, one survey found that\u00a041 <\/strong><\/span>percent<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of American voters believe that the average reporter is more liberal than they are, while only 18 <\/strong><\/span>percent<\/strong><\/span><\/a> believe that the average reporter is more conservative than they are.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A very disturbing UCLA <\/strong><\/span>study<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on media bias discovered that the vast majority of media outlets are “left of center”…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS\u2019 \u201cEvening News,\u201d The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n And even MSNBC has confirmed the liberal bias of the media.\u00a0 According to <\/strong><\/span>MSN<\/strong><\/span>BC<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> mainstream journalists are far more likely to donate their own money to Democrats than they are to Republicans…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.<\/span><\/p>\n As I mentioned at the top of this article, there are six giant media behemoths that control almost all of the media that we consume.\u00a0 These corporate giants own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, video game makers, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The media ownership chart posted below originally comes from a previous article that I authored entitled “Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic <\/strong><\/span>Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read<\/strong><\/span><\/a>“, but it has been updated to reflect some of the latest information.\u00a0 The power that these companies have is so vast that it is hard to put into words…<\/span><\/p>\n CNN ABC Television Network Paramount Pictures Dow Jones & Company, Inc. CBS News NBC In <\/strong><\/span>a previous article about the <\/strong><\/span>media<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> I noted that the average American watches <\/strong><\/span>153<\/strong><\/span> hours<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of television a month.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n When you allow that much information to be downloaded into your brain, it is going to have a dramatic impact on how you think.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Americans are more “connected” than they ever have been before.\u00a0 This is especially true of our kids.\u00a0 They are constantly on one sort of electronic device or another.\u00a0 The following is a brief excerpt from a recent article by Daniel<\/strong><\/span> Taylor<\/strong><\/span><\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n#1 The Mainstream Media Has Very Deep Ties To The Establishment<\/strong><\/h3>\n
#2 The Mainstream Media Gets Things Wrong Very Frequently<\/strong><\/h3>\n
#3 The American Public Does Not Consider The Media To Be Very Trustworthy<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
#4 The Mainstream Media And The Politicians That They Worship Hate The Fact That They Cannot Control Internet News Sites<\/strong><\/h3>\n
#5 The Mainstream Media Is Extremely Liberal<\/strong><\/h3>\n
#6 Six Mammoth Media Corporations Produce About 90 Percent Of The Media That Americans Consume<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Time Warner<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nHome Box Office (HBO)
\nTime Inc.
\nTurner Broadcasting System, Inc.
\nWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
\nCW Network (partial ownership)
\nTMZ
\nNew Line Cinema
\nTime Warner Cable
\nCinemax
\nCartoon Network
\nTBS
\nTNT
\nAmerica Online
\nMapQuest
\nMoviefone
\nCastle Rock
\nSports Illustrated
\nFortune
\nMarie Claire
\nDC Comics
\nPeople Magazine<\/span><\/p>\nWalt Disney<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nDisney Publishing
\nESPN Inc.
\nDisney Channel
\nThe History Channel
\nSOAPnet
\nA&E
\nLifetime
\nBuena Vista Home Entertainment
\nBuena Vista Theatrical Productions
\nBuena Vista Records
\nDisney Records
\nHollywood Records
\nMiramax Films
\nTouchstone Pictures
\nWalt Disney Pictures
\nPixar Animation Studios
\n277 Radio Stations
\nBuena Vista Games
\nHyperion Books<\/span><\/p>\nViacom<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nParamount Home Entertainment
\nBlack Entertainment Television (BET)
\nComedy Central
\nCountry Music Television (CMT)
\nLogo
\nMTV
\nMTV Canada
\nMTV2
\nNick Magazine
\nNick at Nite
\nNick Jr.
\nNickelodeon
\nNoggin
\nSpike TV
\nThe Movie Channel
\nTV Land
\nVH1<\/span><\/p>\nNews Corporation<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nFox Television Stations
\nThe New York Post
\nTV Guide
\nFox Searchlight Pictures
\nBeliefnet
\nFox Business Network
\nFox Kids Europe
\nFox News Channel
\nFox Sports Net
\nFox Television Network
\nFX
\nMy Network TV
\nMySpace
\nNews Limited News
\nPhoenix InfoNews Channel
\nPhoenix Movies Channel
\nSky PerfecTV
\nSpeed Channel
\nSTAR TV India
\nSTAR TV Taiwan
\nSTAR World
\nTimes Higher Education Supplement Magazine
\nTimes Literary Supplement Magazine
\nTimes of London
\n20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
\n20th Century Fox International
\n20th Century Fox Studios
\n20th Century Fox Television
\nBSkyB
\nDIRECTV
\nThe Wall Street Journal
\nFox Broadcasting Company
\nFox Interactive Media
\nFOXTEL
\nHarperCollins Publishers
\nThe National Geographic Channel
\nNational Rugby League
\nNews Interactive
\nNews Outdoor
\nRadio Veronica
\nReganBooks
\nSky Italia
\nSky Radio Denmark
\nSky Radio Germany
\nSky Radio Netherlands
\nSTAR
\nZondervan<\/span><\/p>\nCBS Corporation<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nCBS Sports
\nCBS Television Network
\nCNET
\nShowtime
\nTV.com
\nCBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
\nCBS Consumer Products
\nCBS Outdoor
\nCW Network (50% ownership)
\nInfinity Broadcasting
\nSimon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
\nWestwood One Radio Network<\/span><\/p>\nComcast<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nBravo
\nCNBC
\nNBC News
\nMSNBC
\nNBC Sports
\nNBC Television Network
\nOxygen
\nSciFi Magazine
\nSyfy (Sci Fi Channel)
\nTelemundo
\nUSA Network
\nWeather Channel
\nFocus Features
\nNBC Universal Television Distribution
\nNBC Universal Television Studio
\nPaxson Communications (partial ownership)
\nHulu
\nUniversal Parks & Resorts
\nUniversal Pictures
\nUniversal Studio Home Video<\/span><\/p>\n#7 The American People Are Absolutely Addicted To The Mainstream Media<\/strong><\/h3>\n