John Nichols on Journalism: Is this the era of the nitwit?

[SinnFein4ever]

He owns FOX News, 20th Century FOX, 175 newspapers (including the New York Times, the Weekly Standard, and the Times of London), MySpace, Facebook, the Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins (a major book-publishing company), the New York Stock Exhange, and possibly also Yahoo, TIME Magizine,and the DOW Jones.

To name a few.

He controls over 20% of the world's news.

Including 85% of Australia's.

[SinnFein4ever]

They buy off the Federal Comunications Commision, inorder to loosen the anti-media-monopoly laws to do this.

Rupert Murdock (who's mega-media company is called "News Corp.") owns dozens of different news sources, including movie companies and search engines.

[SinnFein4ever]

Media-consolidation is how the rich control the masses.

Which is why in places like China and Iran, the rulers have absolute control over the media.

Of course, since there are laws like freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the U.S.A., the rich and powerful have had to get creative.

So they slowly buy up every single newspaper company, radio station, TV station and newsmagizine, and roll them all up into one big company.

[OckhamDeRazor]

Thanks for stating the necessary.

[wanealy]

Thank you John Nichols: I have been saying this for the past 10 years. If you keep dumbing down the news and treating citizens like children, they will stop buying the papers, and turning on the TV news.

[FormulaWill]

Bravo. I agree.

[MrBankRuns]

People are shutting off from media because they are tired of getting lied to.

[fl00ders]

^ This

vast amounts of the media is propaganda coated with entertainment to aid the swallowing...

[Bakuninmeow]

Sound information and notions presented here. Thank you so much for posting this here.