If you aren't aware of it already, you should know that 5 or 6 huge multinational corporations own the vast majority of media and information production and distribution resources, channels and mediums in this country: News Corp. (Rupert Murdoch - Fox, MySpace, etc.), General Electric (NBC and lots more), Disney (ABC, ESPN), Time Warner (CNN, HBO, AOL, etc.), Viacom (MTV, BET + more), and CBS. In 1983 around 50 corporations had the same percentage of ownership!
Think the many and wide financial and political interests of these companies and their predominantly conservative owners don't negatively effect the content of the information and media which is then made accessible to the American public? Think again my friends - these corporations hire the people that make the decisions about what news to investigate, what themes to present in entertainment, and what information abouts its consumers to share with an intrusive government.
You can see this vast web of conglomerated media control on this chart:
http://www.thenation.com/special/2006_entertainment.pdf
There is also a useful chart with statistics here:
http://www.corporations.org/media/
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