118 PEOPLE CONTROL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

From MediaChannel.org courtesy of Lying Media Bastards courtesy of This is not a compliment:

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.

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Media watchdog groups used to count the ever decreasing number of media companies. That number has gotten so small these past few years that they're counting individual owners now. The media is owned and run by extraordinarily wealthy elites. Consequently, despite all the conventional wisdom to the contrary, the media are conservative, not liberal, and reflect the values and worldview of the people who own it--as Noam Chomsky says when asked how the elites control the media, they don't have to control them because they own them; it's like asking how the elites control General Motors. (For a brief article on how this actually works, click here.) In fact, it is now so self-evident that the media are conservative that to say otherwise is something of a joke. Unfortunately, vast segments of the American population believe otherwise, and that's no laughing matter. The corporate media present a distorted picture of reality that favors a minute portion of America, to everyone else's detriment. The sooner everybody learns that, the better.

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