Posted on 09/28/2012 2:59:42 PM PDT by bronxville
Feel like you are getting the same news in most papers and on most channels and Web sites? You may well be. Data compiled by an unlikely source, the Frugal Dad, shows 90 percent of the U.S. media in the hands of just six companies. In 1983, it was 50 companies.
The six media giants are GE, News Corp., Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS.
Disney, for example, owns ABC, ESPN, Pixar and Miramax. Viacom owns MTV, Nick JR and Paramount Pictures. (Note: TechNewsDaily has not independently verified the dozens of statistics in the report.)
The big six dominate online, as well. Time Warner websites such as CNN, Time and the Huffington Post get 187 million visitors per month — double the amount of Digg, Tumblr and Reddit combined.
News outlets are not traditional anymore.
Which is why I come to FR for news and commentary.
"YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE...AND...YOU...WILL...ATONE!"
“When we want you opinion, we will give it to you.” The Big 6
Amen. The only time I tune into that junk in the last 25yrs is for a good laugh. Lately, it makes me wanna cry.
The best news on all of those probably comes from that Nick Jr. program.
It’s not what they put in...it’s what they leave out.
NBC stations will use content from nonprofit news outlets
December 5th, 2011
Ten NBC-owned television stations across the nation will team with nonprofit news outlets in an attempt to beef up their enterprise and analytical reporting, the network announced Monday.
NBC affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia will work with work with non-commercial outfits in those cities — KPCC public radio, the Chicago Reporter and WHYY public radio and television, respectively — while all of the network’s owned-and-operated stations will get early access to investigative reports from the independent, nonprofit newsroom Pro Publica.
ProPublica, a New York-based Web operation that already shares content with many news organizations, will give NBC stations an early look at databases it develops on a range of complicated subjects. Its previous projects have, among other things, showed which doctors took payments from drug companies, rated the quality of care at dialysis centers and the performance of secondary schools.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/nbc-stations-will-share-content-from-non-profit-news-outlets.html
Other Partnerships include:
60 Minutes, CNN, ABC World News, USA Today, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, Salon.com, Slate, MSN Money, MSNBC.com, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Business Week, This American Life, and US taxpayer supported NPR.
ProPublica was founded by billionaires Herbet and Marion Sandler. They once gave $11 million dollars to ACORN, after receiving the money, ACORN went to war with Wachovia bank, who at the time was a direct competitor with the Sandler’s within a few months Wachovia was bankrupt.
The Sandlers are members of the Democracy Alliance with George Soros. They are financing lift-wing movements all over North America, Europe, and Eurasia.
One doesn’t have to wonder why we appear to be getting the same message from these networks because they work as one.
Why would they use Nonprofit news outlets aka Nationalized Global News Sources as their primary source of information?
I meant click “All” for post #9.
Yet the news situation is the best since at least 1960.
In 1960 it was ABC, CBS, NBC, Time, and the New York Times, different names, but the same exact news.
Absolutely - I never ever ever watch any TV news source, not even Fox - all a waste of my time - right here on the ‘Net I go. Not that it’s any less depressing.
Good article. This idiocy became apparent to me a few years ago when I was engaged in a boycott of all CBS-owned radio stations over the Don Imus incident. It turns out half the stations on the AM dial in my media market — including both of the major AM “all news” stations — are owned by CBS.
Amazing, good find. I read something similiar about 12 years ago, included book publishing houses. A different way it was figured out, but very similar conclusion.
The New York Times Company profile and media properties -
Janet L. Robinson is the CEO of The New York Times Company. The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is an American media company which publishes major newspapers including The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune, along with about 20 other regional newspapers in the United States.
Originally called the New York Daily Times, the New York Times was first published on September 18, 1851. The newspaper was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. A few years later, in 1856, Raymond was also one of the founders of The Associated Press.
Adolph S. Ochs acquired the New York Times in 1896, and he led the newspaper to achieve the international prominence it holds today. Ochs coined the newspaper’s slogan “All The News That’s Fit To Print.” The Times moved into a new office building at the beginning of the 20th century, and the area was named Times Square in 1904. Nine years later, the Times opened an annex at 229 43rd Street, which is the current company headquarters.
The New York Times nickname, “the gray lady,” is thought to have been coined around 1950 and to be taken from the phrase “the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street,” long used to describe the Bank of England.
Until 2007, The New York Times Company owned nine local television stations which operated as a unit called the Broadcast Media Group. On May 7, 2007, the TV stations were sold to Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, for $575 million.
In 2009, the company sold its classical music radio station WQXR, which it had owned for 65 years, to WNYC for $45 million.
The New York Times Company holds a stake in the Boston Red Sox and two paper mills in the US and Canada. It operates web sites through New York Times Digital and About.com, acquired in March 2005 from Primedia for $410 million.
The descendants of Adolph Ochs, principally the Sulzberger family, control the New York Times Company through the Ochs-Sulzberger family trust. The trust owns a majority of the Class B shares and elects nine of 13 directors to the New York Times board. The family also owns about 19 percent of the Class A shares. Effectively, other owns of the Class A shares have no say in the management of the company.
In 2009, The New York Times Company had revenues of $2.4 billion, down sharply from $3.4 billion in 2005.
(note – Michael Golden AP is a cousin of Sulzberger)
In Alabama:
Florence Times Daily
Gadsden Times
Tuscaloosa News
In California:
North Bay Business Journal
Petaluma Argus-Courier
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
In Florida:
Gainesville Sun
Lakeland Ledger
Ocala Star Banner
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Winter Haven News Chief
In Louisiana:
Houma Courier
Thibodaux Daily Comet
In Massachusetts:
Boston Globe
Clinton Item
West Boylston Banner
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
In New York:
New York Times
In North Carolina:
Hendersonville Times News
Lexington Dispatch
Wilmington Star News
In South Carolina:
Spartanburg Herald-Journal
In France:
International Herald Tribune
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/25/
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