***WORTH READING! RSN: How Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy

Let's remember that CORPORATE MEDIA PROPAGANDA marched us into WAR in the Middle East based on LIES that were thoroughly discredited elsewhere. 

Those who spoke out were condemned, villified and a CIA Operative was outed - a CRIME that was never prosecuted. 


David Brock wrote 

"The Republican Noise Machine...."

documenting MEDIA CONSOLIDATION and its threat. 

Although the book is out of print, it's often available used online or maybe from your library. 

This should challenge your thinking: 

The late William Colby, CIA director from 1973 to 1976, has been quoted as saying: “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Whether or not Colby was quoted correctly, the experience of the past several decades suggests it is largely true. Better sourced is a quote from William Casey, CIA director from 1981 to 1987: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39232-focus-obama-is-against-torture-but-afraid-of-cia-torturers

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FOCUS: Bernie Sanders | How Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy

Bernie Sanders, In These Times
Sanders writes: "Media shapes our very lives. It tells us what products we need to buy and, by the quantity and nature of coverage, what is 'important' and what is 'unimportant.' Media informs us as to the scope of what is 'realistic' and 'possible.'"
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In 1983, the largest 50 corporations controlled 90 percent of the media. Today, as a result of massive mergers and takeovers, six corporations control 90 percent of what we see, hear, and read. Those six corporations are Comcast, News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. In 2010, the total revenue of these six corporations was $275 billion. In a recent article in Forbes magazine discussing media ownership, the headline appropriately read: “These 15 Billionaires Own America’s News Media Companies.”

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