That graphic was from 2012. The various networks and channels all use the same words in their reportage - are they just one company now? With maybe a few hold outs?
The Mueller trial tomorrow - the Media will all say exactly the same things and many in my family and among my friends will believe it because “How could so many people agree on the same things?” Gah! Because they ARE OWNED by Trump’s enemies! *smh*
GE is off the list they sold all their holdings to Comcast and are not a major stock holder of that company. Comcast should be there instead.
Until BJ Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996, literally for the children, no one could own more than 10 media outlets.
CBS & Viacom are in active merger discussions as the Sumner Redstone Family has large stakes in both companies.
Ping to Semimojo.
These are all publicly traded companies. Why not buy the stock and force changes in management? Everyone here loves a good boycott, perhaps they need to get together for a “buycott.”
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” - Adam SmithThe wire services - which started before the Civil War - constitute continual virtual meetings of “people of the same trade” of journalism. For that reason alone, it is obvious that journalists must be conspiring against the public.
In fact, that conspiracy is hiding in plain sight - it is the propaganda campaign to the effect that “journalists are objective.” First, it can’t be true. Objectivity is a laudable goal, not a state of being.
Second, it is cynical - in the sense that claiming that “negativity is objectivity” is the essence of cynicism, and journalists know perfectly well that journalism is systematically negative (“If it bleeds, it leads).
Further, the claim that “journalists are objective” requires journalists to conform ideologically. Any journalists who doesn’t conform risks being labeled, “Not objective, not a journalist."