Free Press or Propaganda Apparatus ?

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http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php

 

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?

 

So ya think we have a " free press " eh? Check out

who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

 

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for

his 2000 election campaign)

 

Television Holdings:

* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.

* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with

Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at

Sunrise.

* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and

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

The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW

bush elected.

 

Other Holdings:

* GE Consumer Electronics.

* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear

reactors and power plants.

* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear

power equipment.

* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric

trains.

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WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.

Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear

Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels

(BNFL)

whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:

Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

 

Television Holdings:

* 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.

Other Holdings:

* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to

the nuclear power industry.

* Westinghouse Government Environmental Services

Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes.

Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants

in the US.

* Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design

and maintenance.

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VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.

Television Holdings:

* 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.

Media Holdings:

* 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 GW's 2000

campaign)

Television Holdings:

* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.

* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20,

Good Morning America.

* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority

holdings in A & E, History Channel and E!

* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone

Television.

Media Holdings:

* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.

* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.

* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.

* Hyperion book publishers.

* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).

Other Holdings:

* 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 GW's

2000 campaign)

America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner–the largest

merger in corporate history.

Television Holdings:

* 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 rs.

Media Holdings:

* 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%), and MAD

Magazine.

Other Holdings:

* Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World

Championship Wrestling.

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NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch)

(donations see bottom note)

Television Holdings:

* 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, Asia; IskyB, India;

Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News

Broadcasting, Japan (80%).

* The Golf Channel (33%).

MEDIA HOLDINGS:

* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.

* 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including

the New York Post, the London Times and The

Australian.

* 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly

Standard.

* HarperCollins books.

OTHER HOLDINGS:

* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National

Rugby League.

* Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand

airlines.

* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris

(USA).

 

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush

in 2000)*

 

Author: systemfailure

 

Posted: Tuesday April 08, 2003 05:43 PM