Congratulations, you have found this article. In order to have even reached this point, you have begun to question if the big media platforms are giving you true, unadulterated news, or if they are pushing their own narratives.
Here is a sad fact that speaks volumes about the condition of the American public and its primary news sources: 41% of the American public use television and 15% use printed newspaper. This means that 56% of Americans have their news spoon fed to them, and it is up to them to decipher biases and opinionated news. There is no question that television and print newspaper have been the majority of primary news consumption the past 70 years. Highly informative news used to be produced for the American public on these platforms; however, that is not the case anymore.
If you so much as glance at major media outlets, listen to what they are saying, and then do a little research to confirm what is fact from fiction, you will immediately begin to notice the skewing of facts to fit certain narratives that major media outlets have been pushing for the past 10-20 years. Undoubtedly, if 56% of America was trying or had the time to find fact vs. fiction, television and print newspapers would not remain the majority sources of news. As a side note, 18% of Americans get their news from the radio still, which is another classic means of receiving the current affairs; however, the radio has remained far less biased than the aforementioned news sources, except NPR. If you question this, start listening to the radio and do your own research.
I invite discourse and curious minds that will not settle for misinformation and propaganda. If America, a democratic republic, is to last more than 300 years, then we must question everything we are told. An informed public is the worst enemy of the state because the government is supposed to work for the public. So, you, who reached this article, congratulations. You are in the minority (but, hopefully a growing percentage) of Americans who use their brains.
Let us break down the main media outlets and their most recognizable assets for further clarification of influence:
Biggest News Media Producers
- Comcast
- Owner: Roberts Family
- CNBC, MSNBC, NBC, Telemundo, and The Weather Channel
- Owner: Roberts Family
- Walt Disney
- Owner(s): Laurene Powell Jobs, The Vanguard Group, and State Street Global Advisors
- ABC, ESPN, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, 21st Century Fox Studios and National Geographic
- Owner(s): Laurene Powell Jobs, The Vanguard Group, and State Street Global Advisors
- Warner Media (AT&T)
- Key People: Randall L Stephenson, John Stankey, John J. Stephens
- CNN, HBO, Cinemax, NBA, Warner Bros and DC Comics
- Key People: Randall L Stephenson, John Stankey, John J. Stephens
- News Corp
- Owner: Rupert Murdoch
- New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Fox News and Fox Business Network
- Owner: Rupert Murdoch
- CBS
- Key People: Strauss Zelnick, Joseph Ianniello
- CBS television, Showtime
- Key People: Strauss Zelnick, Joseph Ianniello
Newspapers
- New York Times Company (The New York Times)
- Owner: Carlos Slim (a Mexican billionaire you should research)
- Publisher: A. G. Sulzberger
- Editor: Dean Baquet
- Managing Editor: Monica Drake
- The Washington Post
- Owner: Jeff Bezos
- Publisher: Fred Ryan
- Editor: Martin Baron
- Managing Editors: Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Cameron Barr, Tracy Grant
- USA Today
- Owner: Gannett Media (largest U.S. newspaper publisher)
- Publisher: Maribel Perez Wadsworth
- Editor: Nicole Carroll
- Los Angeles Times
- Owner: Patrick Soon-Shiong (inventor of Abraxane)
- Editor: Norman Pearlstine
- Houston Chronical
- Owner: Hearst Corporation
- Publisher: John Mckeon
- Editor: Steve Riley
- Chicago Tribune
- Owner: Tribune Publishing
- Publisher & Editor: R. Bruce Dold
For the record, in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was controlled by 50 companies. However, as of 2011, 90% of U.S. media was controlled by just six (6) companies. Now, as of 2017, five (5) companies control 90% of U.S. media. As you can increasingly tell from past fallen regimes, the more control a media entity has, the easier it is to wield influence and push certain narratives.
Obviously, when it comes to a company, the managing people at the top of the organization choose the direction and message. So, as a company’s leadership changes, new missives and directives come into play for those who compose the organization. This is exactly the reason why CNN/MSNBC and the like used to be a good source of news, but is now more opinion, emotion, and bias than actual fact, unless said fact supports an over-arching narrative they are pushing.
For all of the individuals I have listed in the two (2) sections, The Biggest News Media Producers and Newspapers, I invite you to research them on your own. They are too many in number for a break down in one (1) article, let alone even five (5) articles.
-By Gaius Octavius Thurnius
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
I’m a refugee from the Chateau Heartiste comment section. Not only am I cognizant of media bias I’ve had a frontseat to the internet purge. Back when the Chateau was entirely apolitical – yet conservative in spirit – it wasn’t on anyone’s radar. But then it started analyzing the pictographic physiology of soyboys and herbs, then politicians. A bunch of PUA’s were fine, but guys who are socially adept and socially conservative are Atilla’s horde to Rome.
This is the new challenge posed to “dissident” internet sources. Your success potentially sows the seeds of your downfall. Old media has always been defined by it’s consumption/circulation statistics. Decreased readership means a disastrous loss of information control and narrative control. Ironically, everyone here has made a run from the plantation.
Identity Dixie is one of the last places to read anything interesting or insightful aside from my own treasured library of old books. To Globohomo, Epictetus and Schopenhauer are as much anathema as George Wallace or Hitler. A strong sense of individuality and self-determinism is the primordial enemy of collectivism. A Jewish man by the name of Marx used the term Communism. But it is a philosophy many millennia older than him and his people.
Simply put, it is THE STATE, and media is the hierophant that preaches to the crowd.
NPR is incredibly biased to the Left. I was listening to NPR every morning in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. Without fail, they couldn’t go 20 minutes without a sob story about how Muslims were being so mistreated. Over the course of a month, they had one story about American Christians, versus dozens of stories about Muslims, in favor of Muslims.
When you are aware that Christians in America outnumber Muslims in America by staggering percentages, the bias becomes clear. Even before the election, I stopped listening to NPR and haven’t had it on my radio since then.