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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:23 PM
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RFK, Jr. says that U.S. democratic problems are the media's fault.
Edited on Fri May-05-06 03:38 PM by Swede
6 media giants control the MSM according to RFK jr. See the video at this site.

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/theshow.html
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:25 PM
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1. It's time more people say it!
Edited on Fri May-05-06 03:26 PM by robbedvoter
And that's why, Colbert matters!
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newburgh Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:25 PM
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2. big fan here
www.riverkeeper.org
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:25 PM
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3. I have seen a chart showing that to be true.
Edited on Fri May-05-06 03:31 PM by BrklynLiberal
All the media are owned by just a few huge conglomerates.
Here is one version:
AOL/Time Warner
General Electric
Viacom
Walt Disney
Liberty Media
SONY
Vivendi
Bertelsman
News Corporation
AT&T

You can go to this site and click on each of the above to see who they own

http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

You can see a similar breakdown here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants/index.html
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:27 PM
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4. DAMN STRAIGHT! Would Bush be president if the media wasn't protecting him
24/7 for all these years?

And funny, how the media can assure a president gets impeached for having a girlfriend and not wanting the world to know about his dalliance, while Bush remains protected by that same media for allowing 9-11 to happen and to start a war that was UNNECESSARY.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:28 PM
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6. I agree with you
Edited on Fri May-05-06 03:28 PM by dogday
The sat on two important stories before the election, it is ridiculous....
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:18 PM
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12. Would Ohio election fraud have prevailed if MSM covered it?!!
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:27 PM
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5. True, now lets have all Democratic personal and private citizens
shouting this obvious truth both day and night...
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:37 PM
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7. Great Site For News Directed Towards Younger
viewers. I sure would like to see Al Gore's TV station on my Satellite Service
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:39 PM
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8. And it's Congress' fault that Big Money and Big Media have...
...been allowed to fornicate; their idot bastard offspring is the infotainment that passes for today's news coverage.

And it's our fault that we keep reelecting the corrupt men who perpetrate this, the largest fraud ever committed against America.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:42 PM
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9. RFK jr. blames the repeal of the fairness doctrine.
It turned news into entertainment.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:00 PM
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10. That was a symptom...
...of allowing merger after merger and the equation of money with speech. It was inevitable that Big Money would buy up all the speech it could, and rewrite laws to allow itself to get even bigger and less regulated.
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Sinti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:02 PM
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11. He's on the money about the 6 media giants - some of them also have
military-industrial complex mother companies. The others only care about the $$. It's going to be a helluva problem to fix, even if/when they reinstate the fairness doctrine.
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