There are more than two million corporations in the United States. What is the number of corporations that account more than half of all media revenues (including TV, radio, newspapers, book/magazines, films and CD's)?
ANSWER: d. 5. This number is 10 percent of what it was in 1983 when 50 corporations dominated the media. The five corporations currently accounting for half or more of all media are: AOL/Time Warner, AT&T, CBS/Viacom, Disney and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2000. Figures updated by Project on Media Ownership, New York University.
what??? five corporations help spend $58billion per year just for advertising products, services, and ideas. we get news from five, we get movies, music, books, magazines, billboards, etc., from five... we get lied to by all five... and we keep accepting it.. why? i ask... well here is the candy treats they give us>RYDER SNATCHES ROLE: Winona Ryder has signed a deal for her first lead role since being convicted on shoplifting charges. She will play a slacker actress who has life-changing experiences after eating marijuana-laced brownies. The actress obviously hopes the director will bring her luck. ''Mary Warner'' is being helmed by Michael Lehmann, who directed Ryder in the 1989 dark comedy ''Heathers'' -- a film that many credit with propelling the actress to stardom.
9:00PM 09-14-04 CATNIP AND TRUST- When Larry (voiced by John Goodman) and Kate (voiced by Cheryl Hines) discover a bag of catnip in Sierra's (voiced by Danielle Andrea Harris) room they fear the worst -- that their teenage daughter has become a "nip-head." Taking the advice of the community drug counselor, they decide to confront Sierra but only cause her to run away. They find her at a rave where they are given a catnip(ecstacy/entheogen type drug) laced sausage necklace, which they eat and get high. Sierra confronts them on their hypocrisy and they all discover that the original catnip drug belonged to Larry's dad.
So we now discover that tv and film media gives us happy drug using stories... aimed at making the liberal leftists more tolerant of programming and less critical of the medium that brings us lies and deception and greedy selfish agendas.... we are so stupid... like zappa said: if god made us in his image, and there are so many really stupid and ugly people out here in the world, then god must be really stupid and really ugly.
