How Trustworthy Is the Mainstream Media: Facts and Figures.
Who are they? Who pays for the distribution of mass media? The production?
Media Consolidation
“In 1983 there were 50 dominant media corporations, while today only five conglomerates (AT&T, Comcast, Disney, News Corp and ViacomCBS) own about 90 percent of United States media” (Ben Bagdikian, “The New Media Monopoly,” 2004).
The New Media Monopoly, by Ben H. Bagdikian
ISBN-13: 9780807061879 | ISBN-10: 0807061875
https://www.beacon.org/The-New-Media-Monopoly-P1127.aspx
Media ownership and control | Media Reform Coalition
https://www.mediareform.org.uk/key-issues/media-ownership-and-control
Interlocking Directorates
“Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations, including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care and pharmaceutical companies and technology companies. This list shows board interlocks for the following major media interests: ”
https://fair.org/interlocking-directorates/
“A recent FAIR study of nine major media corporations and their major outlets, Disney (ABC), General Electric (NBC), CBS, Time Warner (CNN, Time), News Corporation (Fox), New York Times Co., Washington Post Co. (Newsweek), Tribune Co. (Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times) and Gannett (USA Today) found connections to six different insurance companies. Five out of the nine media corporations studied shared a director with an insurance company; two insurance companies—Chubb and Berkshire Hathaway—were represented by more than one media corporation director.
The study also found crossover between these media corporations and several large pharmaceutical companies, such as Eli Lilly, Merck and Novartis... Out of the nine media corporations studied, six had directors who also represented the interests of at least one pharmaceutical company. In fact, save for CBS, every media corporation had board connections to either an insurance or pharmaceutical company.”
Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
The corporate ties between insurers and media companies
Kate Murphy, July 1, 2009
https://fair.org/home/single-payer-and-interlocking-directorates/
Who Rules Public TV?
Corporate sector overwhelmingly dominates public TV governing boards
https://fair.org/extra/who-rules-public-tv/
“We are here to serve advertisers. That is our raison d’etre.”
the C.E.O. of Westinghouse(CBS), Advertising Age, February 3, 97
https://www.globalissues.org/article/159/media-conglomerates-mergers-concentration-of-ownership
Manufacturing Consent, by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
https://rumble.com/v2zly6u-manufacturing-consent-noam-chomsky-and-the-media-1992.html
ISBN-13: 9780375714498 | ISBN-10: 0375714499
Exclusive: The federal government paid hundreds of media companies to advertise the COVID-19 vaccines while those same outlets provided positive coverage of the vaccines
Congress appropriated $1 billion in fiscal year 2021 for the secretary of health to spend on activities to "strengthen vaccine confidence in the United States.”
“In response to a FOIA request filed by TheBlaze, HHS revealed that it purchased advertising from major news networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable TV news stations Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, legacy media publications including the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations. These outlets were collectively responsible for publishing countless articles and video segments regarding the vaccine that were nearly uniformly positive about the vaccine in terms of both its efficacy and safety.”
“Former editor of largest newspaper in Germany revealed the CIA pays journalists in Germany, France, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to plant fake stories - and the CIA is trying to bring war to Russia”
Udo Ulfkotte German Journalist Who Spilled the Beans on CIA Media Influence Found Dead
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/german-newspaper-editor-exposed-cia-dead/
Do you know about Operation Mockingbird?
“During the Cold War, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched its Operation Mockingbird, which aimed to collect intelligence by bribing journalists and institutions around the world and affecting public opinion by manipulating news media.
Carl Bernstein, a famous American investigative journalist who unveiled the scandal in 1977, said that according to the plan, the CIA recruited journalists that were put on a payroll by the CIA and instructed to write "fake stories". The CIA admitted that at least 400 journalists and 25 large organizations around the world had secretly carried out assignments for the agency.
To this day, the CIA still attempts to monitor and manipulate public opinion through this despicable practice. The so-called truth that underpins a news story, from the perspective of the U.S. government, is not worth mentioning at all, with news media just being used as a tool to safeguard the country’s hegemony in the world.”
Propaganda, by Edward Bernays (1928)
ISBN-13: 9781684228416 | ISBN-10: 1684228417
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275553/page/n3/mode/2up
https://archive.org/search?query=Propaganda+By+Edward+Bernays
https://we.riseup.net/assets/589417/Bernays+Propaganda.pdf
Please tell everyone.
Additional reading:
The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-and-the-media-50-facts-the-world-needs-to-know/5471956
Hidden Hands – A Different History of Modernism – episode 1: Art and the CIA
“Originally aired on Channel 4 in 1995, this is episode 1 of a 4-part documentary by Frances Stonor Saunders, author of The Cultural Cold War. 1. Art and The CIA – Exposes the post-war role of the CIA in promoting the American abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/F1k7LCyPBcE0/
“...Brought To You By Pfizer”
https://odysee.com/@OurFreeSociety:2/Whitney-Webb-brought-to-you-by-Pfizer:e
$10 Million Out of Anderson Cooper's $12 Million Salary Is Paid by PFIZER!
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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0490