[ForGod'sSake]

There, that looks better. Do you tend to agree or diasgree?

Bottom line though, does it shed any light on the great questions of our time???

;^)

[Richard Poe]

ForGod'sSake writes: "There, that looks better. Do you tend to agree or diasgree?"

I agree. Originally, I put the wire services at the bottom because they don't have their own outlets and depend on other media to run their stories. But since they feed stories to Big Media outlets it seems logical to place then higher up the food chain.

How the issue of their ownership by several Big Media companies affects their placement on the food chain is another question, which I'm not sure how to answer yet.

ForGod'sSake writes: "Bottom line though, does it shed any light on the great questions of our time?"

Yes, because we are at war with the MSM, and, to wage a successful war, we must learn the disposition of enemy forces.

Mapping the command structure of the MSM will tell us who is really in charge of it.

[Richard Poe]

I'm not sure where the newsweeklies fit into the pyramid. They are extremely influential in shaping elite opinion, but their weekly frequency puts them at a disadvantage to any medium with a daily frequency. I think I'll bump them down below the broadcast networks. Let's see how that works.

[Richard Poe]

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/ -------------------------------------------------- \

/ ---------- New York Times — Washington Post ---------- \

/ ------------------------------- Wire services ------------------------------- \

/ ----------------- ABC — NBC — CBS — (and later CNN) ----------------- \

/ ---------- Newsweek — Time Magazine — U.S. News and World Report ---------- \

/ ----------------- local newspapers — local network affiliates (TV and radio) ----------------- \