The Conspiracy to Assassinate President Kennedy was covered up by Elements of Government and, National News Media.
This page is reserved to illustrate the News Media's participation in that cover-up.
Start with the question of HOW can a private Business BUY Evidence in the Crime of the Century? On Saturday morning Life Magazine Bought the Zapruder Film, paying $150,000 for that Zapruder Film.
WHY would Life Magazine Refuse to produce that film to an Authorized District Attorney (Jim Garrison) when that film is needed in a Trial of accused conspirator Clay Shaw?
WHY would that film request Require a Subpoena?
WHY would that Subpoena be fought by Life Magazine all the way to the United states Supreme Court?
HOW can that Private Business then REFUSE to show that Film to the American Public?
HOW can that Private Business then LIE about the contents of that film?
After owning the "Z" Film for 2 weeks, in the December 6, issue on page 52F here's what Life said about the film we were Never going to see.
Notice that the throat wound was STILL an Wound of Entrance.
Notice how Life Lied about how JFK had an Entrance in the throat by Lying.
The united States Supreme court ruled in favor of Jim Garrison.
Once Garrison got the film, bootleg copies showed up all over the Research Community.
The First time the "Z" Film was ever shown on National TV is in 1975 when Geraldo Rivera hosted a TV Show called "Goodnight America".
Rivera had 2 guests named Bob Groden and, Dick Gregory. Once they Showed the "Z" film on National TV the "cat was outta the bag" so to speak. That's when Life Magazine sold the film back to the Zapruder family for $1.00 after paying $150.000 for it.
Anothe Life Magazine employee is Richard Billings. Read what Loran Eugene Hall said about Billings when questioned by the HSCA. (below)
HOW can the New York Times publish a Full Page Laudatory Editorial Edifying the 26 Volumes only 1 day after they were released?
There isn't a Human on earth who read 10 million words in 1 day let alone evaluate/remember them.
HOW can Dan Rather get away with the Lies he told about the Zapruder Film? (see Dan Rather Lies Page under Zapruder Film Page)
http://whokilledjfk.net/ratherlies.htm
Below shows ABC's plans to Sabotage Jim Garrison. (Giving a whole new meaning to "Freedom of the Press")
Below is the "instructions from the CIA to the media on exactly how to handle critism of thee Warren Repor
MEDIA & the CIA
http://danwismar.com/uploads/Bernstein%20-%20CIA%20and%20Media.htm
the time differential between Dallas and, Christchurch, New Zealand is seventeen (17) hours
How did New Zealand know Oswald had lived in Russia before it was known in Dallas? ? ? ?
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
The defenders of the Warren Report are ABSOLUTELY correct….
"It would take an enormous amount of people conspiring to effect a conspiracy of this magnitude. Surely, some of them would leak the truth sooner or later."
Indeed there were an enormous amount of people engaged in the conspiracy. Some ACTIVELY. (Knowingly) Some PASSIVELY. (Unknowingly) Some were "DUPED" into participating in the Cover-Up.
PASSIVE:
Parkland Drs. in
PASSIVE: Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton (Conspiracy of Silence)
ACTIVE:
ACTIVE:
ACTIVE: Some Warren Commission staff members. (Looking the other way during the commission of a felony.)
ACTIVE:
ACTIVE: CIA.Tampering with evidence, Lying & Witholding evidence.
ACTIVE: LBJ, (With one stroke of a pen the evidence was locked away for 75 years.)
WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SO GREAT IS THAT IT CONSISTS OF THREE (3) SEPERATE BRANCHES; EXECUTIVE, JUDICIAL & LEGISLATIVE.
In other words our Government has a CHECKS & BALANCES system built into it. (Sort of an insurance policy against corruption)
It's sort of like when one of these branches screws up the other branches are there to insure that the faux pas will see the light of day. (Something similar to the way Watergate worked.)
I believe that on the preceding pages I showed that ALL THREE Branches dropped the ball on the Kennedy Assassination.
1. EXECUTIVE- LBJ for conspiring to hide the truth by locking away the evidence for 75 years with one stroke of the pen.
2. JUDICIAL- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court conspiring to issue a
FALSE report. Acting Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach ORDERING the end result before the
investigation even started. FBI, State of
3. LEGISLATIVE-Two Commission Members, Russell & Cooper coming from the Senate and Two Commission Members Boggs & Ford coming from the House of Reps. Along with a Former Dir. of CIA Dulles and a Former head of The World Bank McCloy. Collectively conspired to issue a FALSE Report.
BUT NOT TO WORRY! BECAUSE OF OUR "CONSTITUTION" THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UNOFFICIAL FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT KNOWN AS THE PRESS.
In the unlikely event that the three branches of Government would collectively enter into a conspiracy to commit a crime or even willingly become an accessory after the fact by conspiring to COVER_UP a crime. We could always rely on the unofficial fourth branch of government, THE PRESS! (In these times "The Press" is defined as The Print Media and The Electronic Media. i.e. Radio & Television.)
In addition to what I wrote above about TIME-LIFE Inc., I suggest you go to the library for a copy of "The Montreal Star" 9/12/77 for an article reprinted from the New York Times about the NEXT issue of ROLLING STONE Magazine. It contains an article by reporter Carl Bernstein (of Watergate fame). Bernstein tells of a working relationship between the CIA and some 400 journalists of the New York Times, CBS and a dozen other news organizations since 1952.
You can also check out remarks of former CBS reporter Sig Mickelson to the effect that CBS reporters had the approval of CBS head William Paley in the 50's. The approval to work with the CIA for the purpose of disseminating MIS-INFORMATION to the American public. (Cronkite/Rather worked for CBS!)
NEWTIMES MAGAZINE Issue of July 11, 1975 has a great article by Jerry Policoff entitled "The Media and the Murder of John F. Kennedy".
Just
to whett your appetite I'll give you a small quote. This is from a letter to J.
Lee Rankin, Chief Counsel to the Warren Commission. It's dated May 21, 1964.
From
"...It happens to be to our interest, as well as to the interest of the Commission and of the country, to obtain as wide a distribution of this document as we can. ..."
ARE YOU GETTING THE PICTURE HERE FOLKS? THE DATE OF: MAY 21, 1964 IS FOUR (4) MONTHS BEFORE THE COMMISSION COMPLETED IT'S WORK AND RELEASED THE REPORT! (Lone Assassin, NO Conspiracy!)
Further
information on the collusion between the media and the Government can be found
in
A greater understanding of the way the media works in concert with the government (CIA) is through the eyes of an "INSIDER" _Daniel Schoor, in his book CLEARING THE AIR".
I understand that after more than a decade of recession the average Joe doesn't know why we're having the crime problem that exists today. He isn't aware of the changes this Country has gone through since 1963 because he doesn't have the time to research it. He just knows there's TOO much crime and want's it stopped.
The Politicians, Law Enforcement leaders and the Professionals of this Country (Medical & Lawyers) KNOW WELL that when the LEADERSHIP breaks Law and the LEADERSHIP covers it up, they CAN"T very well expect the masses to follow Law that those same LEADERS just proved no longer exists.
In
closing I want to thank authors such as Schiller, Ford, Belin, Posner, Roberts,
Amrine,
Up until the time that they wrote their books to either support the Warren Report or to ATTACK the critics I had read very little on the subject. (AP edition of the WR)
Whatever the critics wrote I couldn't verify because I didn't have the 26 Volumes either. (When I did gain access to the 26 Volumes, my goal was to discover that the critics were indeed SCAVENGERS. Needless to say I found the "credible critics" To be VERY CREDIBLE!
It became very apparent that the subject was of magnanimous importance with the amount of books that were being written on the subject. What was REALLY mind-Boggling was the amount of books written for the sole purpose of discrediting the so called critics. I was never comfortable with the official version of JFK's Assassination. But I didn't know why. In those days Americans automatically accepted whatever our Government told us.
MY HOPE IS THAT THESE WRITINGS AROUSED YOUR CUROSITY ENOUGH TO RESEARCH THE SUBJECT "THOROUGHLY" TO GET THE TRUE FACTS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
and, this
Priscilla-cia
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Priscilla
Johnson McMillan
and the CIA
by Peter R.
Whitmey
Comments
will be forwarded. Email: Clint
Bradford
In August, 1993, thousands
of pages of CIA documents were made available to researchers at the National
Archives that had been previously classified, including several documents
associated with Priscilla Johnson McMillan, author of Marina and Lee, and
the subject of several earlier articles by this writer.(1)
The first document, dated
December 11, 1962 (and numbered 17456), is a "contact report,"
previously classified "secret," written by Donald Jameson, Chief
SR/CA, which possibly stands for "Soviet Russia/Covert Actions." The
report is based on a 90- minute meeting with Priscilla Johnson in her room at
the Brattle Inn, located in
Jameson described Priscilla
as being "able, astute and conscientious," reflected also in her
writing, but at the same time, was "rather nervous and shy,"
suggesting a "lack of self-confidence." He noted, however, that she
certainly had a large number of Soviet contacts, and knew how to meet and talk
to people. Jameson indicated at the outset of his report that Priscilla had been
"selected as a likely candidate to write an article on Yevtushenko in a
major
Much of the report is a
summary of Jameson's discussion with Priscilla about various Russian poets and
Yevtushenko especially, whom the CIA seemed to be particularly interested in.
Priscilla informed Jameson that she had arranged to write several articles for The
Reporter - including one on Yevtushenko - and emphasized that "she
thought she must write only the truth, without defining exactly what that was to
me."
In conclusion, Jameson
pointed out that, despite what she had stated:
"I
think that Miss Johnson can be encouraged to write pretty much the articles we
want. It will require a little more contact and discussion, but I think she
could come around ... Basically, if approached with sympathy in the cause she
considers most vital, I believe she would be interested in helping us in many
ways. It would be important to avoid making her think that she was being used as
a propaganda tool and expected to write what she is told. I don't think she
would go along with that idea at all. On the other hand, she is searching for
both more information and more understanding of the problem of the Soviet
intellectual and is consequently subject to influence."
It is certainly clear that
the CIA intended to make full use of Priscilla Johnson's talents as a Soviet
researcher and writer in an ongoing attempt to destabilize conditions in the
The next document, dated
February 5, 1964, and numbered 17458 (suggesting that there might be a
document still classified in between), is a lengthy memo based on a meeting with
Priscilla on Jan. 30 and 31,1964, this time written by Gary Coit (SR/CA).
Although the report was prepared two months after the assassination of JFK,
there is no mention of the subject, including Priscilla's revised report of Nov.
24, 1963 about having interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald. However, in the initial
four line paragraph, two full lines and a partial line have been blacked out.
Intriguingly, there is a
reference to Priscilla having written to "...her former boss, President
Kennedy..." in regard to the fact that her notebooks had not been returned
to her by the Soviet Union; they had been removed from her luggage as she was
leaving Leningrad (Priscilla pointed out that none of the material was
"...particularly sensitive ... and would not have really seriously
compromised any of her contacts in the USSR.") Presumably, Coit's reference
to JFK as Priscilla's "boss" dates back to the mid-1950s when he was a
senator. Nevertheless, she was able to obtain the President's assistance, as
press secretary Pierre Salinger had made contact with the Soviet Ambassador
about her notebooks, "...which produced no result."
The overall purpose of the
Jan. 30-31 meetings (which lasted a total of 11 hours) was to "...debrief
Johnson on her flaps with the Soviets when she was in the
An attempt was made during
the debriefing to learn about Priscilla's "contacts" while in the
Reference was made to a
reporter/translator named Victor Louis associated with both McGraw-Hill and
NANA, whom Priscilla felt had a "...lousy reputation in
Priscilla raised the
question during the interview of the likelihood of being able to return to the
Coit had brought up the name
"Alex Dolberg" during the debriefing, whom Priscilla knew and talked
to at length when he was "...at Harvard." The CIA were quite certain
that he was "...working for Sovs and therefore advised her to be careful in
any dealings with him." Priscilla had been equally suspicious, although her
discussions with him had "...developed her understanding of the Soviet
machine ... and (she) now understands power as used by the Sovs."
In his final paragraph, Coit
stated that he was "...vaguely uncomfortable after this long discussion
with Johnson...", even though he found her to be "...intelligent and
well informed on the Soviet Union" (although with "...an air of
naivety and innocence, which is really only a mannerism"). Coit felt that
Johnson's interest in the Soviet Union was "...an intellectual thing,"
and that she was "...not out to destroy the Communist system" (the
major goal of the CIA). Having spoken to another U.S. correspondent named
Patricia Blake (who later wrote a glowing review of Marina and Lee for Time
magazine), Coit had noted two "...apparent contradictions" related to
Priscilla:
1) she had defended Dolberg
to Blake, who for years she had thought was "...no good;" and
2) according to Blake, Miss
Johnson had developed a "...low opinion of Lurye after the Boston press
conference," in contrast to comments made by Priscilla during the
debriefing.
In conclusion, Coit felt
that "...we cannot expect to use Johnson actively in operations. She
obviously doesn't want to get involved in deep plots. She is unlikely to be the
type of informant who will volunteer information; but she will supply info she
has acquired, if asked and if it's not too sensitive, such as the identies (sic)
of her friends in the USSR."
There is no indication
whether the CIA encouraged Priscilla to contact Marina Oswald through its
publishing connections, or whether she provided any feedback based on her
extensive interviews later that year, but such information could very well be
included in another, still classified document.
The third document that I
received, dated February 23, 1965, is also a memo written by Gary Coit, based on
a phone call from Priscilla in regard to Alex Dolberg. By now Dolberg was living
"...in London's demi-monde with homosexuals, drunks, beatniks, etc."
and had become "...terribly paranoid", convinced that he was being
"...followed everywhere." Priscilla had heard from several sources
that Dolberg might be considering going back to the USSR because of the death of
his mother and the condition of his father. Coit indicated that Priscilla had
reported this information because of her belief that Dolberg "...could do
more harm to followers of Soviet intellectual affairs, both in the West and in
the USSR, than anyone else she can think of." They both agreed that
"someone" should have a talk with Dolberg, and encourage him to
recognize the fact that returning to the USSR would be a mistake. At the same
time, Coit felt it was important to emphasize to Dolberg that no one trusted him
in the West, believing he was a "...Soviet agent," but if he told the
CIA everything he knew, he could be "...rehabilitated" and have his
name cleared.
Based on the fact that
Priscilla had made the call to the CIA, regardless of her motivation, it would
appear that she had become an informer for the Agency, although it is impossible
to know how much other information she provided, and whether any of it related
to her contact with Marina Oswald.
It should be noted that the
CIA's interest in Priscilla Johnson began at an early date, based on the fact
that a "201 file" was opened most likely in the mid-1950s(2)
and, according to a fourth document declassified in 1993 entitled, "Review
of 201 File on U.S. Citizen," Priscilla's file had not been closed as of
Jan. 28, 1975. She was listed as a "witting collaborator," although
the nature of her collaboration was not described.(3)
In addition to the four
documents described above, I also received a copy of Priscilla's HSCA Executive
Session interview that took place on April 20,1978, although 40 out of 113 pages
of transcript have been withdrawn by the CIA. It was clear that the committee
members did not entirely trust her.
Peter
Whitmey, September, 1994
Read subsequent Letters
to the Editor
Notes
1.
Thanks to Jon Meyers at AARC for letting me know about the availability of PJM
documents discussed in this report.
2.
According to a conversation with Major John Newman earlier this year, no date is
listed on "201 files", but PJM's number (102798) precedes both
Oswald's and Webster's considerably: He estimates that her file was likely
opened around 1955. No date is required on "201 files."
3.
I learned from Anthony Summers that Priscilla Johnson claimed in a recent
interview (with Summers and his wife, Robbyn), that "...the Johnson in the
1975 document is someone other than herself." (Letter from Summers to
Whitmey, dated July 27, 1994). It should be noted that only the last name is
given on the CIA document, unlike the other three, but all four are stamped
"Approved for Release 1993 CIA Historical Review Program." I got the
distinct impression from my conversation with John Newman that the
"201" file number on the 1975 document was Priscilla Johnson's.
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The Lady in
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Partial Bibliography of Peter
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My Brief Correspondence with
Aline Mosby
it appears that Richard Billings was CIA also. according to testimony of Loran Hall to the HSCA.
The New York Times Admits That Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials
By
Michael, on July 23rd, 2012
In
one of the most shocking articles that the New York Times has ever put out,
a New York Times reporter has openly admitted that virtually every major
mainstream news organization allows government bureaucrats and campaign
officials to censor their stories. For example, almost every major news
organization in the country has agreed to submit virtually all quotes from
anyone involved in the Obama campaign or the Romney campaign to gatekeepers
for “quote approval” before they will be published. If the gatekeeper in the
Obama campaign does not want a certain quote to get out, the American people
will not see it, and the same thing applies to the Romney campaign. The goal
is to keep the campaigns as “on message” as possible and to avoid gaffes at
all cost. But this kind of thing is not just happening with political
campaigns. According
to the New York Times, “quote approval” has become
“commonplace throughout Washington”. In other words, if you see a quote in
the newspaper from someone in the federal government then it is safe to say
that a gatekeeper has almost certainly reviewed that quote and has approved
it. This is another sign that “the free and independent media” in this
country is a joke. What we get from the mainstream media is a very highly
filtered form of propaganda, and that is one reason why Americans are
turning away from the mainstream media in droves. People want the truth, and
more Americans than ever realize that they are not getting it from the
mainstream media.
The following quote comes from the recent article in the New York Times mentioned above and it is absolutely jaw dropping….
The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.
They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.
Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review.
The verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this message.
This is an article that everyone needs to read. If you have not read it yet, you can find it right here.
What all of this means is that both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign essentially have “veto power” over any quotes from those campaigns that we see in the newspapers.
According to the New York Times, virtually every major news organization has agreed to submit their quotes for “quote approval”….
It was difficult to find a news outlet that had not agreed to quote approval, albeit reluctantly. Organizations like Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Reuters and The New York Times have all consented to interviews under such terms.
This is absolutely disgusting, and it goes against everything that our media is supposed to stand for.
The following is what Joseph Farah had to say when he learned about this story….
All I can say about these people I once considered “colleagues” is that I am so ashamed of them. I am mortified. They are humiliating themselves and a vital institution for any free society.
It seems the biggest threat to the American tradition of a free and independent press is not government coercion. It’s the willing submission of the press to being handled and managed by government and politicians.
Keep in mind that Joseph Farah has been working in the world of journalism for decades. He is deeply saddened to see what is happening to a profession that he deeply loves.
But he is not the only one.
Just check out what Dan Rather had to say during a speech back in 2009….
“At my age and stage I’ve finally reached the point where I don’t have to kiss up to anybody,” he said. “What a wonderful feeling it is.”
Even so, his talk emphasized what he believes is the erosion of quality journalism, because of the corporatization, politicization, and “trivialization” of news. Those three factors, Rather argued, have fueled the “dumbing down and sleezing up of news” and the decline of “great American journalism.”
Likening media consolidation to that of the banking industry, Rather claimed that “roughly 80 percent” of the media is controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few as four, corporations.
And Dan Rather is right. The control over the media in the United States is more tightly concentrated than ever before.
Back in the early 1980s, approximately 50 corporations essentially had nearly total control of the media in the United States.
Today, just six monolithic media corporations dominate virtually everything you watch, hear and read.
These six gigantic corporations own television networks, publishing houses, movie studios, newspapers, radio stations, music labels and video game companies. Most Americans are absolutely addicted to information and entertainment, and those six massive corporations supply the vast majority of the information and entertainment that Americans take in.
The amount of control that those six corporate giants have is absolutely incredible. For example, the average American watches 153 hours of television a month. If you can beam 153 hours of “programming” into someone’s head each month, that gives you an awesome amount of influence over that person.
The six monolithic corporations mentioned above are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal.
There are some areas of the media that are not completely dominated by those corporations, but even control over those areas is becoming more highly concentrated than ever.
For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States. The power that Clear Channel has over the radio industry in America is absolutely staggering.
Even control over the Internet is becoming much more concentrated. Giant corporations such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly controlling what we see and hear online.
But it really is the “big six” that dominate most of what we see, hear and read on a daily basis.
In a previous article, I detailed a portion of the vast media holdings of these gigantic corporations….
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Today, six colossal media giants tower over all the rest. Much of the information in the chart below comes from mediaowners.com. The chart below reveals only a small fraction of the media outlets that these six behemoths actually own….
Time Warner
Home
Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine
Walt Disney
ABC
Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books
Viacom
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1
News Corporation
Dow
Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan
CBS Corporation
CBS
News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network
NBC Universal
Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
USA Network
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Trio
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video
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Please keep in mind that the list above is not exhaustive. It only contains a sampling of the companies that those six corporate giants own.
So are you starting to get an idea of how powerful they are?
If you ever wondered why the version of “the news” that you get is so similar no matter where you turn, it is because control of the news is concentrated in just a very few hands.
So who controls the “big six” media corporations?
Would it surprise you to know that the boards of directors of those big media corporations have a tremendous amount of overlap with the boards of directors of large banks, large oil companies and large pharmaceutical companies?
The following is from the Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting website….
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.
You can find a list that shows how these boards of directors overlap and interlock right here.
The giant media corporations are not going to criticize the establishment because they are the establishment.
The messages that these media behemoths pound into our heads are going to be the messages that the establishment wants pounded into our heads.
Anyone that believes that the mainstream media is “independent” and that it does not have “an agenda” is being delusional.
Of course it is also worth mentioning that much of what we get from the mainstream media is also often directly controlled by the federal government.
Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein (of Woodward and Bernstein fame) has discovered that hundreds of American journalists have worked directly for the CIA.
Not that the federal government and the establishment are opposed to one another. The truth is that they very much work together hand in hand. But sometimes the federal government has slightly different priorities than the corporate establishment does.
In any event, the key point to take away from all this is that the news and entertainment that we all enjoy on a daily basis if very highly censored and very highly controlled.
It is imperative that we understand that those that own and control the media are trying to shape society in a certain way. They want to impose their values and their vision of the future on all the rest of us.
You will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the “Big Brother” police state control grid that is going in all around us.
Instead, they insist that all of this added “security” will keep us safe even as our liberties and freedoms are being badly eroded.
You will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the population control agenda of the global elite.
Instead, they insist that more “family planning” will help the environment and make the world a more prosperous place for all of us.
You will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the Federal Reserve and none of them are warning us about the financial collapse that is rapidly approaching.
Instead, they tell us to keep having faith in the system and they promise us that everything is going to be okay.
Well, you can mindlessly believe the corporate media if you want, but I believe that in this day and age it is absolutely imperative that we all learn to think for ourselves.
Don’t be a mindless robot for anyone.
Think for yourself and make your own decisions.
The truth is out there and you can find it if you are willing to go search for it.
I dug this up at the NYT site. It
was their first article after the
assasination, assembled by Tom Wicker from many sources. The interesting
thing is that every statement concerning the time the limousine was on
Elm St. comports *exactly* with the lone gunman in the TSBD viewpoint.
There isn't a single mention of the grassy knoll by Wicker or witnesses.
The number, rhythm and direction of the shots are described with
complete confidence, and the description is in complete accordance with
the views of non-conspiracists.
November 23, 1963
Kennedy Is Killed By Sniper
As He Rides In Car In Dallas;
Johnson Sworn In On Plane
By TOM WICKER
Dallas, Nov. 22--President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
shot and killed by an assassin today.
He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was
fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a
motorcade.
Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was riding in the third
car behind Mr. Kennedy's, was sworn in as the 36th President of
the United States 99 minutes after Mr. Kennedy's death.
Mr. Johnson is 55 years old; Mr. Kennedy was 46.
Shortly after the assassination, Lee H. Oswald, who once defected
to the Soviet Union and who has been active in the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee, was arrested by the Dallas police. Tonight he
was accused of the killing.
Suspect Captured After Scuffle
Oswald, 24 years old, was also accused of slaying a policeman
who had approached him in the street. Oswald was subdued after
a scuffle with a second policeman in a nearby theater.
President Kennedy was shot at 12:30 P.M., Central standard time
(1:30 P.M., New York time). He was pronounced dead at 1 P.M.
and Mr. Johnson was sworn in at 2:39 P.M.
Mr. Johnson, who was uninjured in the shooting, took his oath in
the Presidential jet plane as it stood on the runway at Love Field.
The body of Mr. Kennedy was aboard. Immediately after the
oath-taking, the plane took off for Washington.
Standing beside the new President as Mr. Johnson took the oath of
office was Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Her stockings were spattered
with her husband's blood.
Gov. John B. Connally Jr. of Texas, who was riding in the same
car with Mr. Kennedy; was severely wounded in the chest, ribs
and arm. His condition was serious, but not critical.
The killer fired the rifle from a building just off the motorcade route.
Mr. Kennedy, Governor Connally and Mr. Johnson had just
received an enthusiastic welcome from a large crowd in downtown
Dallas.
Mr. Kennedy apparently was hit by the first of what witnesses
believed were three shots. He was driven at high speed to Dallas's
Parkland Hospital. There, in an emergency operating room, with
only physicians and nurses in attendance, he died without
regaining consciousness.
Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Connally and a Secret Service agent were in
the car with Mrs. Kennedy and Governor Connally. Two Secret
Service agents flanked the car. Other than Mr. Connally, none of
this group was injured in the shooting. Mrs. Kennedy cried, "Oh
no" immediately after her husband was struck.
Mrs. Kennedy was in the hospital near her husband when he died,
but not in the operating room. When the body was taken from the
hospital in a bronze coffin about 2 P.M., Mrs. Kennedy walked
beside it.
Her face was sorrowful. She looked steadily at the floor. She still
wore the raspberry- colored suit in which she had greeted
welcoming crowds in Forth Worth and Dallas. But she had taken
off the matching pillbox hat she wore earlier in the day, and her
dark hair was windblown and tangled. Her hand rested lightly on
her husband's coffin as it was taken to a waiting hearse.
Mrs. Kennedy climbed in beside the coffin. Then the ambulance
drove to Love Field, and Mr. Kennedy's body was placed aboard
the Presidential jet. Mrs. Kennedy then attended the swearing-in
ceremony for Mr. Johnson.
As Mr. Kennedy's body left Parkland Hospital, a few stunned
persons stood outside. Nurses and doctors, whispering among
themselves, looked from the window. A large crowd that had
gathered earlier, before it was known that the President was dead,
had been dispersed by Secret Service men and policemen.
Priests Administer Last Rites
Two priests administered last rites to Mr. Kennedy, a Roman
Catholic. They were the Very Rev. Oscar Huber, the pastor of Holy
Trinity Church in Dallas, and the Rev. James Thompson.
Mr. Johnson was sworn in as President by Federal Judge Sarah T.
Hughes of the Northern District of Texas. She was appointed to the
judgeship by Mr. Kennedy in October, 1961.
The ceremony, delayed about five minutes for Mrs. Kennedy's
arrival, took place in the private Presidential cabin in the rear of the
plane.
About 25 to 30 persons--members of the late President's staff,
members of Congress who had been accompanying the President
on a two-day tour of Texas cities and a few reporters--crowed into
the little room.
No accurate listing of those present could be obtained. Mrs.
Kennedy stood at the left of Mr. Johnson, her eyes and face
showing the signs of weeping that had apparently shaken her
since she left the hospital not long before.
Mrs. Johnson, wearing a beige dress, stood at her husband's right.
As Judge Hughes read the brief oath of office, her eyes, too, were
red from weeping. Mr. Johnson's hands rested on a black,
leather-bound Bible as Judge Hughes read and he repeated:
"I do solemnly swear that I will perform the duties of the President
of the United States to the best of my ability and defend, protect
and preserve the Constitution of the United States."
Those 34 words made Lyndon Baines Johnson, one-time farmboy
and schoolteacher of Johnson City, the President.
Johnson Embraces Mrs. Kennedy
Mr. Johnson made no statement. He embraced Mrs. Kennedy and
she held his hand for a long moment. He also embraced Mrs.
Johnson and Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, Mr. Kennedy's private
secretary.
"O.K." Mr. Johnson said. "Lets get this plane back to Washington."
At 2:46 P.M., seven minutes after he had become President, 106
minutes after Mr. Kennedy had become the fourth American
President to succumb to an assassin's wounds, the white and red
jet took off for Washington.
In the cabin when Mr. Johnson took the oath was Cecil Stoughton,
an armed forces photographer assigned to the White House.
Mr. Kennedy's staff members appeared stunned and bewildered.
Lawrence F. O'Brien, the Congressional liaison officer, and P.
Kenneth O'Donnell, the appointment secretary, both long
associates of Mr. Kennedy, showed evidences of weeping. None
had anything to say.
Other staff members believed to be in the cabin for the swearing-in
included David F. Powers, the White House receptionist; Miss
Pamela Turnure, Mrs. Kennedy's press secretary, and Malcolm
Kilduff, the assistant White House press secretary.
Mr. Kilduff announced the President's death, with choked voice and
red-rimmed eyes at about 1:36 P.M.
President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 o' clock
Central standard time today here in Dallas," Mr. Kilduff said at the
hospital. "He died of a gunshot wound in the brain, I have no other
details regarding the assassination of the President."
Mr. Kilduff also announced that Governor Connally had been hit by
a bullet or bullets and that Mr. Johnson, who had not yet been
sworn in, was safe in the protective custody of the Secret Service
at an unannounced place, presumably the airplane at Love Field.
Mr. Kilduff indicated that the President had been shot once. Later
medical reports raised the possibility that there had been two
wounds. But the death was caused, as far as could be learned, by
a massive wound in the brain.
Later in the afternoon, Dr. Malcolm Perry, an attending surgeon,
and Dr. Kemp Clark, chief of neurosurgery at Parkland Hospital,
gave more details.
Mr. Kennedy was hit by a bullet in the throat, just below the
Adam's apple, they said. This wound had the appearance of the
bullets' entry.
Mr. Kennedy also had a massive, gaping wound in the back and
one on the right side of the head. However, the doctors said it was
impossible to determine immediately whether the wounds had
been caused by one bullet or two.
Resuscitation Attempted
Dr. Perry, the first physician to treat the President, said a number
of resuscitative measure had been attempted, including oxygen,
anesthesia, an indotracheal tube, a tracheotomy blood and fluids.
An eloctrocardiogram monitor was attached to measure MR.
Kennedy's heart beats.
Dr. Clark was summoned and arrived in a minute or two. By then,
Dr. Perry said, Mr. Kennedy was "critically ill and moribund," or
near death.
Dr. Clark said that on his first sight of the President he had
concluded immediately that Mr. Kennedy could not live.
"It was apparent that the President had sustained a lethal wound,"
he said. "A missile had gone in and out of the back of his head
causing external lacerations and loss of brain tissue."
Shortly after he arrived, Dr. Clark said, "the President lost his heart
action by the electrocardiogram." A closed-chest cardiograph
massage was attempted, as were other emergency resuscitation
measure.
Dr. Clark said these had produced "palpable pulses" for a short
time, but all were "to no avail."
In Operating Room 40 Minutes
The President was on the emergency table at the hospital for
about 40 minutes, the doctors said. At the end, perhaps eight
physicians were in Operating Room No. 1, where Mr. Kennedy
remained until his death. Dr. Clark said it was difficult to determine
the exact moment of death, but the doctors said officially that it
occurred at 1 P.M.
Later, there were unofficial reports that Mr. Kennedy had been
killed instantly. The source of these reports, Dr. Tom Shires, chief
surgeon a the hospital and professor of surgery at he University of
Texas Southwest Medical School, issued this statement tonight:
"Medically, it was apparent the President was not alive when he
was brought in. There was no spontaneous respiration. He had
dilated, fixed pupils. It was obvious he had a lethal head wound.
"Technically, however, by using vigorous resuscitation, intravenous
tubes and all the usual supportive measure, we were able to raise
a semblance of a heartbeat."
Dr. Shires said he was "positive it was impossible" that President
Kennedy could have spoken after being shot. "I am absolutely
sure he never knew what hit him," Dr. Shires said.
Dr. Shires was not present when Mr. Kennedy was being treated
at Parkland Hospital. He issued his statement, however, after
lengthy conferences with the doctors who had attended the
President.
Mr. Johnson remained in the hospital about 30 minutes after Mr.
Kennedy died.
The details of what happened when shots first rang out, as the
President's car moved along at about 25 miles an hour, were
sketchy. Secret Service agents, who might have given more
details, were unavailable to the press at first, and then returned to
Washington with President Johnson.
Kennedys Hailed at Breakfast
Mr. Kennedy had opened his day in Fort Worth, first with a speech
in a parking lot and then at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
The breakfast appearance was a particular triumph for Mrs.
Kennedy, who entered late and was given an ovation.
Then the Presidential party, including Governor and Mrs. Connally,
flew on to Dallas, an eight-minute flight. Mr. Johnson, as is
customary, flew in a separate plane. The Presidents and the Vice
President do not travel together out of fear of a double tragedy.
At Love Field, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy lingered for 10 minutes,
shaking hands with an enthusiastic group lining the fence. The
group called itself "Grassroots Democrats."
Mr. Kennedy then entered his open Lincoln convertible at the head
of the motorcade. He sat in the rear seat on the right-hand side.
Mrs. Kennedy, who appeared to be enjoying one of the first
political outings she had ever made with her husband, sat at his
left.
In the "jump" seat, directly ahead of Mr. Kennedy, sat Governor
Connally, with Mrs. Connally at his left in another "jump" seat. A
Secret Service agent was driving and the two others ran alongside.
Behind the President's limousine was an open sedan carrying a
number of Secret Service agents. Behind them, in an open
convertible, rode Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Texas's senior
Senator, Ralph W. Yarborough, a Democrat.
The motorcade proceeded uneventfully along a 10-mile route
through downtown Dallas, aiming for the Merchandise Mart. Mr.
Kennedy was to address a group of the city's leading citizens at a
luncheon in his honor.
In downtown Dallas, crowds were thick, enthusiastic and cheering.
The turnout was somewhat unusual for this center of
conservatism, where only a month ago Adlai E. Stevenson was
attacked by a rightist crowd. It was also in Dallas, during the 1960
campaign, that Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife were
nearly mobbed in the lobby of the Baker Hotel.
As the motorcade neared its end and the President's car moved
out of the thick crowds onto Stennonds Freeway near the
Merchandise Mart, Mrs. Connally recalled later, "we were all very
pleased with the reception in downtown Dallas."
Approaching 3-Street Underpass
Behind the three leading cars were a string of others carrying
Texas and Dallas dignitaries, two buses of reporters, several open
cars carrying photographers and other reporters, and a bus for
White House staff members.
As Mrs. Connally recalled later, the President's car was almost
ready to go underneath a "triple underpass" beneath three
streets--Elm, Commerce and Main--when the first shot was fired.
That shot apparently struck Mr. Kennedy. Governor Connally
turned in his seat at the sound and appeared immediately to be hit
in the chest.
Mrs. Mary Norman of Dallas was standing at the curb and at that
moment was aiming her camera at the President. She saw him
slump forward, then slide down in the seat.
"My God," Mrs. Norman screamed, as she recalled it later, "he's
shot!"
Mrs. Connally said that Mrs. Kennedy had reached and "grabbed"
her husband. Mrs. Connally put her arms around the Governor.
Mrs. Connally said that she and Mrs. Kennedy had then ducked
low in the car as it sped off.
Mrs. Connally's recollections were reported by Julian Reade, an
aide to the Governor.
Most reporters in the press buses were too far back to see the
shooting, but they observed some quick scurrying by motor
policemen accompanying the motorcade. It was noted that the
President's car had picked up speed and raced away, but reports
were not aware that anything serious had occurred until they
reached the Merchandise Mart two or three minutes later.
Rumors Spread at Trade Mart
Rumors of the shooting already were spreading through the
luncheon crowd of hundreds, which was having the first course.
No White House officials or Secret Service agents were present,
but the reporters were taken quickly to Parkland Hospital on the
strength of the rumors.
There they encountered Senator Yarborough, white, shaken and
horrified.
The shots, he said, seemed to have come from the right and the
rear of the car in which he was riding, the third in the motorcade.
Another eyewitness, Mel Crouch, a Dallas television reported,
reported that as the shots rang out he saw a rifle extended and
then withdrawn from a window on the "fifth or sixth floor" of the
Texas Public School Book Depository. This is a leased state
building on Elm Street, to the right of the motorcade route.
Senator Yarborough said there had been a slight pause between
the first two shots and a longer pause between the second and
third. A Secret Service man riding in the Senator's car, the Senator
said, immediately ordered Mr. and Mrs. Johnson to get down below
the level of the doors. They did so, and Senator Yarborough also
got down.
The leading cars of the motorcade then pulled away at high speed
toward Parkland Hospital, which was not far away, by the fast
highway.
"We knew by the speed that something was terribly wrong,"
Senator Yarborough reported. When he put his head up, he said,
he saw a Secret Service man in the car ahead beating his fists
against the trunk deck of the car in which he was riding apparently
in frustration and anguish.
Mrs. Kennedy's Reaction
Only White House staff members spoke with Mrs. Kennedy. A
Dallas medical student, David Edwards, saw her in Parkland
Hospital while she was waiting for new of her husband. He gave
this description:
"The look in her eyes was like an animal that had been trapped, like
a little rabbit--brave, but fear was in the eyes."
Dr. Clark was reported to have informed Mrs. Kennedy of her
husband's death.
No witnesses reported seeing or hearing any of the Secret Service
agents or policemen fire back. One agent was seen to brandish a
machine gun as the cars sped away. Mr. Crouch observed a
policeman falling to the ground and pulling a weapon. But the
events had occurred so quickly that there was apparently noting for
the men to shoot at.
Mr. Crouch said he saw two women, standing at a curb to watch
the motorcade pass, fall to the ground when the shots rang out. He
also saw a man snatch up his little girl and run along the road.
Policemen, he said, immediately chased this man under the
impression he had been involved in the shooting, but Mr. Crouch
said he had been a fleeing spectator.
Mr. Kennedy's limousine--license No. GG300 under District of
Columbia registry--pulled up at the emergency entrance of
Parkland Hospital. Senator Yarborough said the President had
been carried inside on a stretcher.
By the time reporters arrived at the hospital, the police were
guarding the Presidential car closely. They would allow no one to
approach it. A bucket of water stood by the car, suggesting that the
back seat had been scrubbed out.
Robert Clark of the American Broadcasting Company, who had
been riding near the front of the motorcade, said Mr. Kennedy was
motionless when he was carried inside. There as a great amount
of blood on Mr. Kennedy's suit and shirtfront and the front of his
body, Mr. Clark said.
Mrs. Kennedy was leaning over her husband when the car
stopped, Mr. Clark said, and walked beside the wheeled stretcher
into the hospital. Mr. Connally sat with his hands holding his
stomach, his head bent over. He, too, was moved into the hospital
in a stretcher, with Mrs. Connally at his side.
Robert McNeill of the National Broadcasting Company, who also
was in the reporters' pool car, jumped out at the scene of the
shooting. He said the police had taken two eyewitnesses into
custody--an 8-year-old Negro boy and a white man--for
informational purposes.
Many of these reports could not be verified immediately.
Eyewitness Describes Shooting
An unidentified Dallas man, interviewed on television here, said he
had been waving at the President when the shots were fired. His
belief was that Mr. Kennedy had been struck twice--once, as Mrs.
Norman recalled, when he slumped in his seat; again when he slid
down in it.
"It seemed to just knock him down," the man said.
Governor Connally's condition was reported as "satisfactory"
tonight after four hours in surgery at Parkland Hospital.
Dr. Robert R. Shaw a thoracic surgeon, operated on the Governor
to repair damage to his left chest.
Later, Dr. Shaw said Governor Connally had been hit in the back
just below the shoulder blade, and that the bullet had gone
completely through the Governor's chest, taking out part of the fifth
rib.
After leaving the body, he said, the bullet struck the Governor's
right wrist, causing a compound fracture. It then lodged in the left
thigh.
The thigh wound, Dr. Shaw said, was trivial. He said the
compound fracture would heal.
Dr. Shaw said it would be unwise for Governor Connally to be
moved in the next 10 to 14 days. Mrs. Connally was remaining at
his side tonight.
Tour by Mrs. Kennedy Unusual
Mrs. Kennedy's presence near her husband's bedside at his
death resulted from somewhat unusual circumstances. She had
rarely accompanied him on his trips about the country and had
almost never made political trips with him.
The tour on which Mr. Kennedy was engaged yesterday and today
was only quasi- political; the only open political activity was to have
been a speech tonight to a fund- raising dinner at the state capitol
in Austin.
In visiting Texas, Mr. Kennedy was seeking to improve his political
fortunes in a pivotal state that he barely won in 1960. He was also
hoping to patch a bitter internal dispute among Texas's
Democrats.
At 8: 45 A.M., when Mr. Kennedy left the Texas Hotel in Fort
Worth, where he spent his last night, to address, the parking lot
crowd across the street, Mrs. Kennedy was not with him. There
appeared to be some disappointment.
"Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself," the President said
good-naturedly. "It takes longer, but, of course, she looks better
than we do when she does it."
Later, Mrs. Kennedy appeared late at the Chamber of Commerce
breakfast in Fort Worth.
Again, Mr. Kennedy took note of her presence. "Two years ago,"
he said "I introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was the man
who had accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris. I am getting
somewhat that same sensation as I travel around Texas. Nobody
wonders what Lyndon and I wear."
The speech Mr. Kennedy never delivered at the Merchandise Mart
luncheon contained a passage commenting on a recent
preoccupation of his, and a subject of much interest in this city,
where right-wing conservatism is the rule rather than the
exception.
Voices are being herd in the land, he said, "voices preaching
doctrines wholly unrelated to reality, wholly unsuited to the sixties,
doctrines which apparently assume that words will suffice without
weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory and that peace is
a sign of weakness."
The speech went on: At a time when the national debt is steadily
being reduced in terms of its burden on our economy, they see
that debt as the greatest threat to our security. At a time when we
are steadily reducing the number of Federal employes serving
every thousand citizens, they fear those supposed hordes of civil
servants far more than the actual hordes of opposing armies.
"We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade
ago, will 'talk sense to the American people.' But we can hope that
fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this nation
is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter
of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense."
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The New York Times Admits That Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials
The following quote comes from the recent article in the New York Times mentioned above and it is absolutely jaw dropping…. The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative. They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name. Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review. The verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this message. This is an article that everyone needs to read. If you have not read it yet, you can find it right here. What all of this means is that both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign essentially have “veto power” over any quotes from those campaigns that we see in the newspapers. According to the New York Times, virtually every major news organization has agreed to submit their quotes for “quote approval”…. It was difficult to find a news outlet that had not agreed to quote approval, albeit reluctantly. Organizations like Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Reuters and The New York Times have all consented to interviews under such terms. This is absolutely disgusting, and it goes against everything that our media is supposed to stand for. The following is what Joseph Farah had to say when he learned about this story…. All I can say about these people I once considered “colleagues” is that I am so ashamed of them. I am mortified. They are humiliating themselves and a vital institution for any free society. It seems the biggest threat to the American tradition of a free and independent press is not government coercion. It’s the willing submission of the press to being handled and managed by government and politicians. Keep in mind that Joseph Farah has been working in the world of journalism for decades. He is deeply saddened to see what is happening to a profession that he deeply loves. But he is not the only one. Just check out what Dan Rather had to say during a speech back in 2009…. “At my age and stage I’ve finally reached the point where I don’t have to kiss up to anybody,” he said. “What a wonderful feeling it is.” Even so, his talk emphasized what he believes is the erosion of quality journalism, because of the corporatization, politicization, and “trivialization” of news. Those three factors, Rather argued, have fueled the “dumbing down and sleezing up of news” and the decline of “great American journalism.” Likening media consolidation to that of the banking industry, Rather claimed that “roughly 80 percent” of the media is controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few as four, corporations. And Dan Rather is right. The control over the media in the United States is more tightly concentrated than ever before. Back in the early 1980s, approximately 50 corporations essentially had nearly total control of the media in the United States. Today, just six monolithic media corporations dominate virtually everything you watch, hear and read. These six gigantic corporations own television networks, publishing houses, movie studios, newspapers, radio stations, music labels and video game companies. Most Americans are absolutely addicted to information and entertainment, and those six massive corporations supply the vast majority of the information and entertainment that Americans take in. The amount of control that those six corporate giants have is absolutely incredible. For example, the average American watches 153 hours of television a month. If you can beam 153 hours of “programming” into someone’s head each month, that gives you an awesome amount of influence over that person. The six monolithic corporations mentioned above are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. There are some areas of the media that are not completely dominated by those corporations, but even control over those areas is becoming more highly concentrated than ever. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States. The power that Clear Channel has over the radio industry in America is absolutely staggering. Even control over the Internet is becoming much more concentrated. Giant corporations such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly controlling what we see and hear online. But it really is the “big six” that dominate most of what we see, hear and read on a daily basis. In a previous article, I detailed a portion of the vast media holdings of these gigantic corporations….
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