Thanks for sharing this Patrick Henry ~ Who Controls the MSM or ..... BIRDBRAINS: Why the Mainstream Media Promotes Them April 14, 2014 Editorial By James Jaeger Daily Bell Before I address exactly what a birdbrain is, and how they are effectively utilized by the Mainstream Media, I want to go over the facts as to exactly what the Mainstream Media is. The most significant fact to remember about the Mainstream Media is that it is ultimately six corporations that control 90% of the information delivered to Americans. The ostensible diversification we see all around us in the media is thus only an illusion created by corporate lawyers and crafty social engineers. What this comes down to is the fact that – due to deregulation of the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC) and an orgy of mergers the past several decades – we no longer have a free press in America. We have what could be termed, an INFORMATION CARTEL. This cartel is similar to the BANKING CARTEL we suffer under and know as the Federal Reserve System, and the price-jacking OIL CARTEL we know as OPEC. The action of all cartels is to increase profits by consolidating resources and money into fewer and fewer hands. Today, wealthy corporations – often owned by wealthy individuals – dominate almost every word, image and thought that goes into the brains of American Citizens. Given this level of control, is it any wonder American democracy itself has been consolidated into fewer and fewer hands? Is it any wonder we are being moved away from a Constitutional Republic and consolidated into a cultural Marxist-infested, totalitarian, surveillance state? WHY is this happening? In 1983, roughly 50 companies owned the Mainstream Media. Today, 2014, the following 6 corporations own, directly or indirectly, 90 percent of the Mainstream Media: COMCAST NEWS CORPORATION DISNEY VIACOM TIME-WARNER CBS These could be termed the Big 6 and they own most of the other familiar companies you are aware of. For instance, COMCAST owns NBC, Universal Pictures and Focus Features. NEWS CORP owns Fox News, Wall Street Journal, the New York Post. DISNEY owns ABC, ESPN, Miramax and Marvel Studios. VIACOM owns Paramount Pictures, MTV, BET, CMT. TIME-WARNER owns CNN, Warner Bros., HBO, Time magazine. CBS owns Showtime, 60 Minutes, Smithsonian Channel. But it doesnt stop there. The Big 6, and the familiar companies they own, also PARTIALLY own and control yet many, many additional companies and media outlets consisting of TV and radio stations, movie companies, newspapers, and websites – what can be termed collectively, the Mainstream Media. Even though the Big 6 are the top corporate owners and controllers, they effectuate and obfuscate, their ownership of an exorbitant number of media outlets by hiring corporate lawyers to set up endless subsidiaries and legal entities. These legal entities usually have some sort of voting stock thats owned by the Big 6 and the exact ownership-chain is often obfuscated through mechanisms known as nominees and street stock, stock held in brokers or attorneys names. What the layperson often does not understand is that a person or entity does NOT have to own 51% of the voting stock of some entity to control it. All they need to own, especially in the case of large public corporations, is 4% or 5% of the common stock. To get an idea how the obfuscation works, lets take a look at a popular TV show that enjoys vast, unfettered access to the presentation and revision of our nations history. Formerly known as The History Channel, HISTORY and HISTORY 2, are owned by the Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E Network). A&E Network however is owned by a joint venture between the Hearst Corporation and the Disney-ABC Television Group. Disney-ABC Television Group is a wholly-owned division of The Walt Disney Company, what we refer to above as simply DISNEY, one of the Big 6. But who owns the Hearst Corporation, again, one of the entities that owns the A&E Network? The Hearst Corporation goes back to William Randolph Hearst, the original owner and original newspaper monopolist that Orson Wells portrayed as Citizen Kane in his classic motion picture, CITIZEN KANE. The Hearst Corporation is still beneficially owned by members of the Hearst family – just as News Corporation is beneficially owned by Rupert Murdoch and members of the Murdoch family. Among the holdings of the Hearst Corporation are 15 daily newspapers and 36 weekly newspapers. This entity also owns more than 300 magazines, including Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, and even Oprah Winfreys, O Magazine. The Hearst empire, via yet another entity known as Hearst Television, Inc., also dominates 29 television stations which blanket 18% of American voters. This should give you an idea how vast and seemingly diversified these media entities are, and Hearst Corporation isnt even considered one of the Big 6 today. But bear in mind, Orson Wells never made another movie in Hollywood after he made CITIZEN KANE, an embarrassment to William Randolph Hearst. The Hearst Corporation – which back then was in a similar position as any one of the Big 6 Media corporations of today – blackballed Orson Wells so badly he ended his life making little more than TV commercials for a winery. The one last feature he did manage to make, entitled THE SECRET OF NIKOLA TESLA, was financed and produced abroad. It is significant to note that Orson undoubtedly felt a kinship with Nikola Tesla, for when Tesla irritated J. P. Morgan, a financial magnate on par with W. R. Hearst, he was blackballed on Wall Street and he too died a diminished pauper. So, the point is this: people with money and who own large media and financial machines can do great damage, not only to individuals, but to Society in general. People with money, via their media corporations, can promote or invalidate any idea, ideology, product or system they want. In other words:.......
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