With Your Help, I'll Slam A Coworker (Re: "Liberal Media")

[matcom]

sorry for the call for help but I have a "90% of all media is Liberal Media" FAUX watching coworker. :eyes:

so, is there a list of Murdoch/Scaife/etc... owned media out there and (as a bonus) their political contributions?

thanks 1000% in advance

[ClassWarrior]

1. How Media Giants Are Reassembling The Old Oligopoly

An old article, but it talks about the five Media Giants: http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/media_oligopoly.html

I'm sure you can find the contributions of their officers at opensecrets.org.

NGU.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. The 'librul media'?

Does he mean the 'librul media' that got right in line with Bush before the Iraq war? The one that passed his lies off as facts? The one that didn't ask the same questions the alternative media and the foreign press were asking? The one that didn't say a word about the manipulation of intelligence while the British press did? The 'librul media' that ran Judy Miller's fiction about Saddam's biochemical arsenal on the front page of The New York Times?

Is he talking aobut that 'librul media'?

[Maddy McCall]

3. Clear Channel owns or has interest in 1,200 radio stations in the US...

and 220 abroad, and is a huge Republican donor. Clear Channel also owns 823,000 billboards worldwide.

Clear Channel is the #1 radio station owner in the US.

71% of Clear Channel's donations go to Republicans. = $400,000

[Maddy McCall]

5. Rupert Murdoch...

Contributes heavily to Republicans and Republican organizations. $164,000 in the past 18 years.

http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Rupert_Murdoch.php

[GOPisEvil]

4. The Columbia Journal Review has a nice list.

http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

[zbdent]

6. Let's see . . .

how many of Clear Channel's 1300+ stations carry Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, etc . . .

[DanCa]

7. Which is way I didn't talk about politics while working.

This is not directed at you Matcom but when I was working I avoided politics like the plague. It was too distracting from my job.

[Initech]

8. The Daily Show does a good job of...

pointing out how all three major news networks air the exact same story at the exact same time. Tell him to try that at any given time of day, then that's proof that there really is no "librul media".

[Greyhound]

9. I don't have access to my normal box, so I can't get the link, but there's

a site called who owns what (or something similar) that has put all this info together. Try this to get a start;
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

[Lefty48197]

10. Here's a couple of links on the subject:

Here's a link to an article about right wing media agents spreading the administration's propoganda about the war in Iraq:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842

Here's a good Robert Kennedy Jr. speech on the subject of the "liberal" media:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Z.shtml