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Re: While I hear your concern about corporate incfluence...
sassyfla See my TER Reviews 154 reads
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I think it be naive to not think business and government are separate.  They mutually serve to promote each other. When working within the appropriate checks and balances,  this enables a capitalist society to prosper and grow.   however  those checks and balances have collapsed (IMHO) to the point where government is not functioning as the representative of the people, but the security guard for the corporate interests.

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that are programming America have an agenda? Maybe it's to make more profit? Maybe they want to control everything to gain wealth, power and status? Maybe there's a deeper reason?  

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/who-owns-the-media.html?inf_contact_key=ed59172d7e122c26317a77cedac21a93fd500ea671a7ea6b79be04b44afa8e17

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Snowman39152 reads

I am much more concerned about how GOVERNMENT is creeping more into our lives everyday.

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sassyfla155 reads

I think it be naive to not think business and government are separate.  They mutually serve to promote each other. When working within the appropriate checks and balances,  this enables a capitalist society to prosper and grow.   however  those checks and balances have collapsed (IMHO) to the point where government is not functioning as the representative of the people, but the security guard for the corporate interests.

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inicky46135 reads

The article you cite is 12 years old and is no longer accurate.  Let's take the first company on your list, Time Warner Inc.  Since this list was created, it has spun off AOL and Time Warner Cable, two huge companies.  The value of the company cited ($350 billion) is much smaller now, due to the two spinoffs plus the collapse of its stock price.  No doubt there are similar changes in the rest of the list.
If you're going to descend to conspiracy theories, please be more careful with your sources.

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With all due respect SIr,  copyright says Oct 2010.  And I would say,  even if it is 12 years old,  it just proves the point that Big Government and Big Business are becoming amalgamate and "joined at the hips."  

JMHO opinion and I certainly respect yours

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inicky46129 reads

Sorry, but here's what it says in the article itself and all the "facts" in the article are no newer than about 12 years ago.
"Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press, 2000), pp. xx–xxi"
And what I said about Time Warner is entirely correct.  The point is, if you're going to make an assertion and you back it up with outdated information, your point is lost.  There is plenty of current info re the size of the media business.  In fact, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is in front of the FCC right now trying to get waivers so it can purchase major newspapers in LA and Chicago.  That should be a legitimate concern.  So why not do your homework more carefully and make your points well?

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sassyfla187 reads

"Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press, 2000), pp. xx–xxi"  
(that was "the citing"  of the previous paragraph) which was;

"In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal. … [I]n 1987, the fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine. … [I]n 1990, the twenty-nine had shrunk to twenty three. … [I]n 1997, the biggest firms numbered ten and involved the $19 billion Disney-ABC deal, at the time the biggest media merger ever. … [In 2000] AOL Time Warner’s $350 billion merged corporation [was] more than 1,000 times larger [than the biggest deal of 1983]".


I stand my ground,  the article was copyright Oct 2010

Again if there are newer articles "out there",  I would say they just confirm the merging of BG and BB.  I don't have the time like some people to search the internet,  sure wish I did,  because my dream is to be a Professional Student or a Professional Researcher.  :-)


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inicky46148 reads

if the information in the article is 12 years old and is no longer accurate.  End of story.  I agree with you about media concentration being an issue, but there's lots newer stuff available to make the point, as I said.

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no_email171 reads

and more importantly the record lables that promote the negative message.

There are articles out there, but I'm lazy and rather post songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwGyNgcliEg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynnGQBsFRrI

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