Who owns the media?

So we have "FREE PRESS" eh?

Let's have a look at who spreads the news:

GENERAL ELECTRIC (donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign) and owns:

NBC includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC and NBC News at Sunrise. CNBCbusiness television.
MSNBC 24-Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft);
Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo(50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%). (The "MS" in MSNBC means Microsoft (donated 2.4 million to get GWB bush elected).
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WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Toshiba owns 77% (but President Douglas Woo has tried to maintain the confidentiality of the ownership of the private company, but admits it has a significant vertically-integrated relationship with Chi Mei Optoelectronics, a Taiwanese manufacturer of LCD panels)

#1 on the Board of Directors - Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group).
CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
CBS Morning News
Up to the Minute
Country Music Television
The Nashville Network
2 regional sports networks
Group W Satellite Communications
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VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Paramount Television,
Spelling Television,
MTV, VH-1,
Showtime,
The Movie Channel,
UPN (joint owner),
Nickelodeon,
Comedy Central,
Sundance Channel (joint owner),
Flix. 20 major market US stations.
Paramount Pictures,
Paramount Home Video,
Blockbuster Video,
Famous Players Theatres,
Paramount Parks,
Simon & Schuster Publishing.
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DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GWB's 2000 campaign)
ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households
ABC Network News
Prime Time Live
Nightline, 20/20
Good Morning America
ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%)
A&E
History Channel
Disney Channel/Disney Television
Touchtone Television
Miramax
Touchtone Pictures
Jane
Los Angeles Magazine
W, Discover
3 music labels
11 major local newspapers,
Hyperion book publishers
Infoseek Internet search engine (43%)
Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas
All Disney Theme Parks
Walt Disney Cruise Lines
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TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GWB's 2000 campaign)
CNN
HBO
Cinemax
TBS Superstation
Turner Network Television
Turner Classic Movies,
Warner Brothers Television
Cartoon Network
Sega Channel
TNT
Comedy Central (50%)
E! (49%)
Court TV (50%)
Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers. HBO Independent Productions
Warner Home Video
New Line Cinema
Castle Rock
Looney Tunes
Hanna-Barbera
Music: Atlantic
Elektra
Rhino
Sire
Warner Bros. Records
EMI
WEA
Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
33 magazines including:
Time,
Sports Illustrated
People, In Style
Fortune
Book of the Month Club
Entertainment Weekly
Life
DC Comics (50%)
MAD Magazine
The Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Hawks
World Championship Wrestling. =======================================================
NEWS CORPORATION LTD./FOX NETWORKS
(Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris.
(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)
Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include
British Sky Broadcasting (40%);
VOX, Germany (49.9%);
Canal Fox, Latin America;
FOXTEL,
Australia (50%)
STAR TV
IskyB
Bahasa Programming Ltd.
News Broadcasting, Japan (80%)
The Golf Channel (33%)
Twentieth Century Fox,
Fox Searchlight
132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone)
New York Post
London Times
The Australian
TV Guide and
The Weekly Standard.
HarperCollins books.
LA Dodgers
LA Kings,
LA Lakers
National Rugby League
Ansett Australia airlines
Ansett New Zealand airlines

NOW........................ WHO OWNS YOUR MIND?

Could ANYONE possibly believe that these entities DON'T create public opinion?

Only in America.