Antiwar.com and The American Conservative
The mainstream media in the United States can no longer call themselves the “free press.”
The conglomerates that own them are controlled by 6 individuals, listed below:
Name Net Worth TV and Film Networks
Summer Redstone $ 4.6 Billion CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Showtime
Bob Iger $44 Million Disney, ESPN, ABC, Marvel, LucasFilm
Jeff Bewkes $34.5 Million Time Warner, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros
Brian Roberts $40.8 Million CNBC, NBC, HULU, Telemundo, Universal
Lachlan Murdoch $ 2.2 Billion Fox, NewsCorp, FSN, Speed
Kazuo Hirai $4.9 Million Sony, Stars, Tri-Star, TrueTV
Total Net Worth of these six -
Follow the money. These conglomerates are not interested in the wellbeing or free speech of those watching. They would rather keep you in a state of anxiety, purchasing things you don’t need so their advertisers can continue to pay the big sponsorships.
Humanity is being desensitized to drama, death, and violence with constant exposure to the worst parts of human nature. The most shocking and horrendous events get the most attention in the mainstream media. Popularized at the end of the 1890s, William Hearst began using a term that set a chilling standard. Alongside Joseph Pulitzer and during the same time of the Spanish-American War, Hearst ran a newspaper that relied on sensationalizing stories for maximum paper sales. Once he began to realize that showcasing horrific incidents caught the audience’s attention, he was the first to coin the phrase, “if it bleeds, it leads.”
These 6 conglomerates have absolute power over a majority of what is available for the average American to view. This absolute power create absolute corruption. I am thankful that there are other news sources out there and that podcasts have been so successful. My hope is that others will recognize what is happening and follow the money trail. The search for virtue and truth is alive and well.
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