Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America- NYT/Carlyle inc.

[Gloria]

Got this from a list....


Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America
>
> By Peter Phillips
>
> Mainstream media is the term often used to describe the
> collective group of big TV, radio and newspapers in the United
> States. Mainstream implies that the news being produced is for
> the benefit and enlightenment of the mainstream population-the
> majority of people living in the US. Mainstream media include a
> number of communication mediums that carry almost all the news
> and information on world affairs that most Americans receive. The
> word media is plural, implying a diversity of news sources.
>
> However, mainstream media no longer produce news for the
> mainstream population-nor should we consider the media as plural.
> Instead it is more accurate to speak of big media in the US today
> as the corporate media and to use the term in the singular
> tense-as it refers to the singular monolithic top-down power
> structure of self-interested news giants.
>
> A research team at Sonoma State University has recently finished
> conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the
> ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that
> only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director
> of the ten big media giants. This is a small enough group to fit
> in a moderate size university classroom. These 118 individuals in
> turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and
> international corporations. In fact, eight out of ten big media
> giants share common memberships on boards of directors with each
> other. NBC and the Washington Post both have board members who
> sit on Coca Cola and J. P. Morgan, while the Tribune Company, The
> New York Times and Gannett all have members who share a seat on
> Pepsi. It is kind of like one big happy family of interlocks and
> shared interests. The following are but a few of the corporate
> board interlocks for the big ten media giants in the US:
>
> New York Times: Caryle Group, Eli Lilly, Ford, Johnson and
> Johnson, Hallmark, Lehman Brothers, Staples, Pepsi
>
> Washington Post: Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Dun & Bradstreet,
> Gillette, G.E. Investments, J.P. Morgan, Moody's
>
> Knight-Ridder: Adobe Systems, Echelon, H&R Block, Kimberly-Clark,
> Starwood Hotels
>
> The Tribune (Chicago & LA Times): 3M, Allstate, Caterpillar,
> Conoco Phillips, Kraft, McDonalds, Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Shering
> Plough, Wells Fargo
>
> News Corp (Fox): British Airways, Rothschild Investments
>
> GE (NBC): Anheuser-Busch, Avon, Bechtel, Chevron/Texaco,
> Coca-Cola, Dell, GM, Home Depot, Kellogg, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft,
> Motorola, Procter & Gamble
>
> Disney (ABC): Boeing, Northwest Airlines, Clorox, Estee Lauder,
> FedEx, Gillette, Halliburton, Kmart, McKesson, Staples, Yahoo,
>
> Viacom (CBS): American Express, Consolidated Edison, Oracle,
> Lafarge North America
>
> Gannett: AP, Lockheed-Martin, Continental Airlines, Goldman
> Sachs, Prudential, Target, Pepsi
>
> AOL-Time Warner (CNN): Citigroup, Estee Lauder,
> Colgate-Palmolive, Hilton
>
> Can we trust the news editors at the Washington Post to be fair
> and objective regarding news stories about Lockheed-Martin
> defense contract over-runs? Or can we assuredly believe that ABC
> will conduct critical investigative reporting on Halliburton's
> sole-source contracts in Iraq? If we believe the corporate media
> give us the full un-censored truth about key issues inside the
> special interests of American capitalism, then we might feel that
> they are meeting the democratic needs of mainstream America.
> However if we believe - as increasingly more Americans do- that
> corporate media serves its own self-interests instead of those of
> the people, than we can no longer call it mainstream or refer to
> it as plural. Instead we need to say that corporate media is
> corporate America, and that we the mainstream people need to be
> looking at alternative independent sources for our news and
> information.
>
> Peter Phillips is a professor of Sociology at Sonoma State
> University and director of Project Censored a media research
> organization. www.projectcensored.org Sonoma State University
> students Bridget Thornton and Brit Walters conducted the research
> on the media interlocks.

[Melodybe]

1. OMFG I knew the New York times was bad but Carlyle bad!?!

Thanks, that explains everything!

[Melodybe]

2. Kick the New York Times is only fit for bird cages

cut out Paul Krugman's articles first though.

[PATRICK]

3. Coke versus Pepsi

The only opportunity for a competitor to expose an ally of the other is in soft drinks? Of course both Coke and Pepsi have engaged in evils extending to black ops against unions overseas. it would be nice if there was some backbiting but that probably is not allowed to happen either.

What a club of humanitarians.

You cannot possibly put profit motive humans in charge of vital human services. that includes health, energy, food, and especially government. It is insane to expect they can possibly put service first and at the worst vital human services will be sacrificed like so much red ink.

It is insane to expect putting humans motivated by profit(at best!) and blind greed in charge of things necessary to survival. Not surprisingly a long list of American corporations involved in disservice to the community includes bad drugs, dangerous chemicals, bad food, war production, outdated transportation systems, legal killer drugs like tobacco. useless, obsolete, threatening crap. AND they want to own everything before anyone wises up and drives them out of business.

It is insane to think in a progressing world and changing overpopulated environment this will not lead to unimaginable disaster for everyone.

Of course, that is why the media collectively acts opposite to its profession, a bunch of arrogant coconuts.

[Al-CIAda]

4. Cliff notes to the Corpraganda takeover. n/t

[Rex]

5. I've been calling it the corporate media since CNN started

airing commercials.

[cosmicdot]

6. William Kennard is the NYT's Carlyle Board member

he became a board member in 2001 ... what convenient timing ...


"...only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director
of the ten big media giants."

"These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. In fact, eight out of ten big media giants share common memberships on boards of directors with each other."

- too few Americans are sitting at the table ... too few are given access to the airways/spin rooms ... and, our corporate-owned Hill members' portfolios contain the same corporate names -

it's not just other boards these people concurrently sit on ... they, also, bring with them career involvement (i.e., stock holdings)with other big corporations ... one may sit on the board of Pepsi and Ford, while being on a Corporate Media board, but that membership, also, brings years spent working for, say, Big Pharma

something has gotta change


William E. Kennard
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William E. Kennard was elected to the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company in 2001.

Mr. Kennard joined The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, in May 2001 as a managing director in the global telecommunications and media group. Before joining The Carlyle Group, Mr. Kennard served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from November 1997 to January 2001.

Mr. Kennard served as the FCC's general counsel from December 1993 to November 1997. Before serving in the government, Mr. Kennard was a partner and a member of the board of directors of the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand.

Mr. Kennard is also a member of the board of directors of Nextel Communications, Inc., Dex Media, Inc., and eAccess, Ltd., a Tokyo company.

http://www.nytco.com/company-directors.html


'They Rule' allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US.
http://www.theyrule.net/


Interlocking Directorates (note the info is from 2001)
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Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations, including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care and pharmaceutical companies and technology companies. The following list shows board interlocks for June 2001:


Disney/ABC | General Electric/NBC | Viacom/CBS
AOL Time Warner | News Corporation/FOX | New York Times Co.
Washington Post Co. | Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal | Tribune Co.
Knight-Ridder | Gannett

Disney/ABC
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Boeing
Casella Waste Systems
CB Richard Ellis Services
City National Bank
Columbia/HCA Healthcare <------------ FRIST FAMILY business
Doubleclick
Edison International
FedEx
Jenny Craig
LM Institutional Fund Advisors I
Lozano Communications
Northwest Airlines
On Command Corp.
Pacific American Income Shares
Shamrock Holdings
Sotheby's N. America
Staples
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Sun Microsystems
SunAmerica
Trefoil Investors
UNUM Provident
Verdon-Cedric Productions
Xerox

General Electric/NBC
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Alcatel
Anheuser-Busch
Ann Taylor
Avon
Banco Nacional de Mexico
Cambridge Technology Partners
Catalyst
Champion International
Chase Manhattan
Choice-Point <------------- can you say Florida 11/7/2000?
Chubb Corporation
Coca-Cola
Community Health Systems
Dell Computer
Delphi Automotive
Fiat
Home Depot
Honeywell
Illinois Tool Works
International Speedy
Internet Security Systems
Invemed
Morgan Chase & Co.
Kellogg
Kimberly-Clark
Knight-Ridder
Microtune
Morgan Gauranty Trust
National Service Industries
New York Stock Exchange
Oglivy & Mather
Penske
Planet Hollywood
Scientific Atlanta
State Street Bank and Trust
Sun Microsystems
Texaco
TIAA-CREF
Total Systems Services
TRICON Global Restaurants
Unifi
Unilever
WinStar


Viacom/CBS
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Akamai Technologies
Amazon.com
American Express
American Home Products Corp
Atlas Air
Avnet
Bank One
Bear Sterns Companies
Boston Properties
Cardinal Health
Care Capital
Chase Manhattan
CineBridge Ventures
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.
CVS
Daimler Chrysler
Dell
DND Capital Partners
Downeast Food Distributors
Electronic Data Systems
Ezgov.com
Genuity
Honeywell
Morgan Chase & Co.
Lafarge Corp
Louisiana Marine Transport
Maersk Group
MBIA
MovieTickets.com
New York Stock Exchange
Orion Safety Products
PartnerRe
Pfizer
Polaris Venture Capital
Prudential Insurance
Rockwell International Corp
Sonesta
Ventro
Verizon
Visteon


AOL Time Warner
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Allstate
American Express
American International
AMR
Barksdale Group
Catellus Development
Chevron
Citigroup
Colgate-Palmolive
Community Health Systems
Dell Computers
Eagle River
Exult
Fannie Mae
FedEx
Forstmann Little & Co.
Hills & Co.
Hilton Hotels
Interpublic Group
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Lucent
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
New York Stock Exchange
Nextel Communications
Oakwood Homes Corp
Park Place Entertainment
Pearson plc
PepsiCo
Pfizer
Pharmacyclics
Sears
Sun Microsystems
TCW
Webvan
Westfield America Corp
XO Communications
ZG Ventures


News Corporation/FOX
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Allen & Company
Bayou Steel Corp
Beijing PDN Xiren Info. Tech. Co.
British Airways
Championship Auto Racing Teams
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Compaq
Gateway
John Swire and Son Pty.
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
New York Stock Exchange
One.Tel
Phillip Morris
PMP Communications
RM William Holdings
Rothschild Investment
Sanoma of Finnland
Six Flags
Valence Technology
Western Multiplex Corp
Worldcom


New York Times Co.
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360 Degree Communication
Alcoa
Avon
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Campbell Soup
Carlyle Group
Chase Manhattan
Cummins Engine Corp
Ford
Grace & Co.
Hallmark Cards
Hanson PLC
Johnson & Johnson
Knoll
Lehman Bros.
Lucas Digital
LucasArts
Lucent Technologies
Metropolitan Life
PepsiCo
Principal Financial Group
Schering-Plough
Sears
Springs Industries
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
State Street Research and Management
Texaco
US Industries
Warburg, Pincus & Co.
Zurich Insurance


Washington Post Co.
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Allen & Company
Ashland Oil
Berkshire Hathaway
Coca-Cola
Darden Restaurants
Gilette
Heinz
Lexmark
McDonalds
Polaroid
Ticketmaster
Union Pacific
USA Networks
White Mountain Holdings
Yankee Nets


Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal
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12 Entreprenuering
Airclic
American Express
AOL Latin America
Bancroft Operations
Bank of East Asia
Bankers Trust Company
Callaway Golf
Campbell Soup
Clear Channel
Ford
Hallmark Cards
Hartford Financial Services Group
ITT Corp.
Penney
Lazard Freres
Met Life
Minerals Technology
Pfizer
Rayonier
Revlon
Ryder System
Sara Lee
Shell Oil
Sprint
Texaco
Union Carbide
UtiliCorp United
Xerox


Tribune Co.
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American National Can Group
Aon
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
CINergy
Corning
Dean Foods
Deere & Co.
Diamond Technology partners
First Chicago NBD
First Third Bancorp
Inter-Con Security Systems
Maynard Partners Incorporated
McDonalds
Nordstrom
Schlumberger Information Solutions
Schwarz Worldwide
Sears
Skyline Corp.
Smurfit-Stone Container
Taft Broadcasting
Union Central Life Insurance
United Airlines
Washington Mutual
Western Telecommunications


Gannett
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Aloha Airgroup
American Express
Armstrong World Industries
Capital Investment of Hawaii
Carlisle
Continental Airlines
Cummins Engine Co.
Dayton Hudson Corp.
Eastman Chemical Corp.
FLP (Florida Power and Light)
Fronteir Corp
Goldman Sachs
IBM
Kaufman and Broad Home Corp.
Millenium Bank
Pacific Century Financial Corp.
Penny Whistle Toys
Prudential Mutual Funds
Textron
TIAA-CREF
Union Pacific
United Health Group
Waste Management


Knight-Ridder
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A&P
AP
BankAmerica
Barclays
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Florida
Cambridge Technology
Champion International
Chubb Corporation
Commercial Metals Company
Conrail
CVS
Digital Equipment Corp
Economic Studies
Eli Lilly
Fannie Mae
General Electric
Goldman Sachs
IKON
Ionics Corp.
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Kimberly-Clark
MAS Funds
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Phillips Petroleum
Providian Financial
Raytheon
Reliance Group Holdings
Seattle Times
State Street Bank and Trust
Sun Company
Sun MicroSystems
Tandy Corp
Tricon Global Restaurants
Union Carbide
Vanguard Group
WinStar Communications

http://www.fair.org/media-woes/interlocking-directorates.html

[Melodybe]

7. kick for importance, not trusting the New York Times should have

started for most in 2000. But knowing that Carlyle Group is involved is it any wonder they suck so bad?

[LightningFlash]

8. What a shocker......Not.

Continue to force the corporate media to report the news.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm