Who controls the newsmedia and WHY do you think they wanted that control?

Let's have it all in one place - call it as you see it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1115085

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff06122007.html

By DAVE LINDORFF

The fact that most Americans oppose the war in Iraq, and want the president impeached, is testimony to the native intelligence and common sense of the citizens of this nation.

It sure isn't thanks to the quality of the news we're getting here in America.!

Here are some of the things you don't know if you just depend on the corporate media for your information:

1. Most Americans would like to see this president and vice president impeached and removed from office. Newsweek magazine published a scientific poll last October showing that 51 percent of us favor impeachment (including 29 percent of Republicans!), but the corporate media, which normally hasn't met a poll it won't publish, didn't publicize this one. And now, when the numbers supporting impeachment are surely even higher, you can't even pay a polling outfit to ask the question. No wonder most people who favor impeachment still think they're odd ducks.

2. There is a bill, filed in the House of Representatives on April 24 by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), calling for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. Since it was filed, it has gained six co-sponsors, including a member of the House Democratic leadership, Rep. Janice Shakowsky (D-IL). Most major media have ignored this important story completely. Most Americans also don't know that the Vermont State Senate voted overwhelmingly this spring to call on Congress to impeach the president.

3. The president has been declared a felon in federal court. Yet even after Federal District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled last August that President Bush and the National Security Agency were committing serial Class A felonies and were violating both the First and Fourth Amendments by spying on Americans' communications without first obtaining warrants, Bush continued ordering the NSA to continue the patently illegal program for at least half a year. In reports on the spying program, the corporate media never mention that it has been declared a felonious activity by the federal court.

I would love to see a composite of how the media-mongrels have sold Americans to BushCO.

My mind is all over the place, right now. Thoughts of Judith Miller and that cantankerous old butthead previously employed at Cnn, NOVAK, and,...wow, I am scattered,...Rathers suit (OH! I! HOPE! IT! GOES! ALL! THE! WAY!!!!!!),...the whore "reporters" PAID by BushCO to shill for them,...none of which would have EVER happened without the approval of those in charge.

I am not a specialist at accumulating and disseminating information.

However, I do filter through and keep some relevant stuff up there (*lol* thy/my head).

I imagine if anyone was willing to take a moment and google Rupert Murdoch and Robert Blackwell, they would come up with all the information they needed to track down the power-mongers behind the far RW media-mongrels destroying America this day.

Raygun opened the door to this with the so called, Fairness Doctrine. Pres. Clinton expanded this. The US Corp Media Conglomerates favor Repugs because this will keep their power intact. Some of the Media Corps, such as GE are also involved in Defense Contracting. Wars are good for their coffers & stock holders. These facts are the basics. There are a mass of details on the Net about the Media. A good source is Noam Chomsky.

The CEOs of the parent corporations of ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fochs.

Why? Follow the money.

:argh:

Kill your TV before it kills you!

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Why? You have to keep the sheep in line. As Noam Chompsky has pointed out, in a totalitarian government you hit someone over the head with a plow to do your bidding.

In a so called Democracy, you have to be much more subtle. The instrument of persuasion is the news media.

We no longer have a "news" media. We have a corporate-controlled "views" media.

Identifying those loyal to controlling our views/minds would be helpful to re-invigorating democracy.

Take it from there.

"The Act was claimed to foster competition, but instead it led to historic industry consolidation, reducing the number of major media companies from around 80 in 1986, to 6 in 2005."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

Those vicious, greedy asstraps!!!!

did the 50 to 10 decrease in major media groups from 83 to 96

Clinton post the 96 Act has resulted in the 10 groups becoming 5 in 2007.

Thanks for pointing out the error - the GOP are determined to sell Clinton to us as a Democrat in name only - a DINO - a closet republican - so as to cut down Democratic voter turnout should Hillary get the nomination.

The attack on Wiki is fierce - I don't have the time to catch a great deal of it and correct it - but your post let me score a point for the good guys - thanks! :-)

You must have a pair of the special glasses.

I'm using a speshul filter for these pix so you can see THEM too, without the sunglasses. :D

Are you referring to something specific on that link or listing as a general resource?

I ask because,...the internet thingy ALWAYS concerns me. Are you giving an advance warning, here?

ie just digging out my bookmarks. :D

:hi:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=AIPAC+influence+on++media&btnG=Google+Search

here's one link...an interview by Amy Goodman, of CJR Media Critic, Michael Massing

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=AIPAC+influence+on++media&btnG=Google+Search

I have no idea of the prejudices of any sources, links, etc., included by the google link

Also see 'CNN and PsyOps' for another interesting article.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=8339

The Century of the Self
The Untold History of Controlling the Masses Through the Manipulation of Unconscious Desires

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized." - Edward Bernays

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.

To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.

Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.



Happiness Machines
Part One
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151&q=Happiness+Machines&total=132&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0


One: Happiness Machines

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar.

His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.

It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world.



The Engineering of Consent
Part Two
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614&q=The+Engineering+of+Consent&total=52&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0


Two: The Engineering of Consent

The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.

Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying premise - that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this hidden enemy within the human mind.

Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays, provided the centrepiece philosophy. The US government, big business, and the CIA used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. But this was not a cynical exercise in manipulation. Those in power believed that the only way to make democracy work and create a stable society was to repress the savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal American life.



There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads:
He Must Be Destroyed
Part Three
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811&q=There+is+a+Policeman+Inside+All+Our+Heads%3A&total=25&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0


Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed

In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself.

Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people's minds by business and politics.

This programme shows how this rapidly developed in America through self-help movements like Werber Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training - into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.

But the American corporations soon realised that this new self was not a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.



Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
Part Four

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036&q=Eight+People+Sipping+Wine+in+Kettering&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0


Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self.

Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products.

Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.

The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62951/?page=1

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x71919

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST

The SECRET members of the "Fed", connected to
the SECRET members of the European money-suppliers, who
supply money to start and operate wars,
supply money to hide their tracks,
confuse the trackers,
buy our Congress, and
kill those who challenge them.

The military-industrial-complex, BFEE, MOST of the Republican party, and even a group of Democrats are some of the subsidiarys of these people, who
OWN the difference between the amount of money in circulation and the amount of precious objects they could immediately return to currency holders.

They are masters of manipulation. They need to be stopped. We, the people, should own our own money.

Here are a couple of explanitory videos. The second one listed gives insight into the who with the greatest measure of exactitude.

money overview
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&hl=en

A somewhat compelling, albeit long, 3 hours.
About money masters one of two
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1583154561904832383

About money masters two of two
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-529716659023952808

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Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind. End of story.

This isn't about liberal or conservative it is about corporate profits, and keeping the rabble in line.

A quick listen to either Chomsky or Parenti will really help to open your eyes.

She shreds every newspaper brought into my house and demands the television be on Animal Planet all the damn time!

Psycological warfare is being waged against humanity.

Has anyone noticed the four themes?
Conform
Compete
Consume
Breed

I do not have the answer to your question, "Why?" other than the obvious: Power and Control.


Here are links I've bookmarked on the subject:
Big Ten:
http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

What's Wrong With This Picture?
MARK CRISPIN MILLER
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020107/miller

Who Owns What
http://www.cjr.org/resources/

MediaChannel’s Ownership Chart:
http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml

I hate 'em.

Time-Warner, Disney (ABC), and Newscorp (5-6%). Following 9-11 it was important for Saudi Royals to mount a public relations campaign stressing their positive contribution to Western society (in the business world)and undoubtedly they wish to coverup any involvement by Saudi Royals (or the bin Ladin family) in funding terrorism.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5248387077652418022

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:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imnHDlscSmE

Take your cautionary tales
Take your incremental gain
And all the sychophantic games
And throw 'em all away

Burn your tv in your yard
And gather round it with your friends
And warm your hands upon the fire
And start again

Take the story you've been told
The lies that justify the pain
The guilt the weighs upon your soul
And throw 'em all away

Tear up the calendar you've bought
And throw the pieces to the sky
Confetti falling down like rain
Like a parade to usher in your life
Take the dreams that should have died
The ones that kept you lying awake
When you should've been all right
And throw 'em all away

With the time I waste on the life I never had
I could've turned myself into a better man

cause there ain't nothing you can buy
And there is nothing you can save
To fill the whole inside your heart
So throw it all away
Won't fill the whole inside your heart

Help me empty out this house
The wool I've gathered all these days
And thought I couldn't do without
And throw it all away

the ones with the money control it and they want that control to maintain and increase their money! seems to be working for them too!

turn on the tube.

They're called advertisers, and they don't give a damn about anybody's ideology or even the quality of the news as long as it makes them $$$$$$$$$$.

CNN went from something like 13 million viewers internationally to 3 million . . .

this is about controlling the news and keeping news and issues from the public.

You can't run a right-wing agenda and know reality ---

Any bit of truth is like a pebble cracking a mirror -- myth over!!!

sorry...

They figured out how to control foreign media so naturally they've been ordered to control ours. It helps that the owners are completely complicit.

... of course it will probably be 65 and 54 after this post. I'm not seeing a "thread deleted" message here or anything like that.

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST