The five people gatekeeping the Media, What Are their Names?

[Wiley50]

i KEEP HEARING THAT THERE ARE FIVE PEOPLE THAT ARE KEEPING MOST OF THE OTHER 300 MILLION FROM HEARING THE TRUTH

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Rupert Murdock is one

Who are the rest

[HughBeaumont]

1. Dick Mellon Scaife

The Clinton demonizing Grand Cyclops. He's a major anus.

Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom and a Bewsh supporter, is another.

[Wiley50]

6. Scaife? yeah but lots of money but only one newspaper (for all I know)

Kangas died of (supposed) suicide with TWO bullet wounds to the head
in the men's room just down the hall from his corporate offices

Yeah, he's scum, but don't think he's one of the big 5

[blondeatlast]

9. But a HUGE contributor to tax-exempt RW think tanks and

almost certainly key in the Heritage Foundation's notorious "Press Room," where the lazy ass mainstream media goes to find it's "experts" and "facts" on policy issues.

Discount Scaife at the world's risk, believe me.

[HughBeaumont]

11. Scaife's influence reaches FAR beyond the PTR.

From Wikipedia: "Scaife is particularly well known for his financial support of conservative public policy organizations over the past two decades. Scaife has provided support for conservative and libertarian causes in the U.S., mostly through the private, nonprofit foundations he controls: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Allegheny Foundation, and until 2001 the Scaife Family Foundation, now controlled by his daughter Jennie and son David. Scaife also helped fund the Arkansas Project, which ultimately led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton.

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Through contacts made at Hoover and elsewhere, Scaife became a major, early supporter of the Heritage Foundation, which has since become one of Washington's most influential public policy research institutes. Later, he supported such varied conservative and libertarian organizations as:

American Enterprise Institute
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Center for the Study of Popular Culture (headed by David Horowitz)
Federalist Society
Foundation for Economic Education
Free Congress Foundation (headed by Paul Weyrich)
Freedom House
GOPAC (headed by Newt Gingrich)
Independent Women's Forum
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (which operates the Collegiate Network)
Judicial Watch
Landmark Legal Foundation
Media Research Center (headed by Brent Bozell)
Pacific Legal Foundation
Pittsburgh World Affairs Council
Reason Foundation
By 1998 his foundations were listed among donors to over 100 such groups, to which he had disbursed some $340 million by 2002."

[annabanana]

2. Sumner Redstone?

CEO Viacom (CBS)
Jack Welsh - CEO General Electric (NBC)
Robert A. Iger - CEO Disney (ABC)


Here's "The Big Ten" from The Nation

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

[texastoast]

3. The Mays Men

Lowry, Mark and Ray

Clear Channel - sponsors of Dixie Chicks CD crushing parties.

http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1168&p=hidden

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Rev Moon

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Friggin Moonies...

I believe that cult leader and bushite Rev. Sun Myung Moon owns the United Press International.

[Virginia Dare]

10. Yep, he's definitely a big part of it..

if not the true puppetmaster, Welcome to DU!!

[KoKo]

7. Jack Welch...GE/ and his hand picked CEO Jeffrey Immelt....

heading up GE..MSNBC/NBC/CNBC Financial News Network.

[KoKo]

16. Meanwhile our Corporatists SELL OFF USA while Media Languises!

Caught up in their OWN COMPLICTIY...they ignore more "Outsourcing" and the Fat Cats in our Financial Sector who are SELLING US DOWN THE RIVER!

[Wiley50]

8. I'm too poor and disabled to have the wherewithal to threaten anyone

but if someone does'nt figure out who these people are
and get them an express ticket off the planet
none of us have any hope at all

That's just the simple truth

[leveymg]

12. #1 - NYT Publisher Arthur Sulzberger; #2 - TIME Warner CEO Richard Parsons

#3 GE Chairman Jeff Immelt; the others are the top executives of the following media corporations:

FORTUNE 500 Custom Ranking
Rank Company Industry Revenues
48 Time Warner Entertainment 44,788.0
64 Walt Disney Entertainment 34,285.0
88 News Corp. Entertainment 25,327.0
165 CBS Entertainment 14,479.1
218 Viacom Entertainment 11,466.5

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http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/big_media_interlocks.html

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. For a listing of current censored news stories see http://www.projectcensored.org/ Sonoma State University students Bridget Thornton and Brit Walters conducted the research on the media interlocks.

[Wiley50]

13. Nice Research, Mr Levey

It deserves it's own thread or 100 threads

At least i'll know who killed me

[leveymg]

14. My pleasure

You're always worth more to them alive, but sick (or believing you are), than dead.

[Wiley50]

15. Being is believing

Just so you know

I put you right up there with Octafish and H2O man

Thanks for being You