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== United States == | == United States == | ||
[[File:Media consolidation in the US 2.jpg|thumb|211x211px|Another infographic with more logos of subsidiaries]] | [[File:Media consolidation in the US 2.jpg|thumb|211x211px|Another infographic with more logos of subsidiaries]] | ||
In the [[United States of America|United States]], 6 corporations control 90% of all of broadcast media.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Nickie Lousie|date=2020-09-18|title=These 6 corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America. The illusion of choice and objectivity|url=https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/|newspaper=techstartups.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Individual billionaires also bankroll their own propaganda outlets, ranging from liberal [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] like Bill Gates<ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Alan Macleod]]|date=2021-11-15|title=Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/|newspaper=[[Mintpress News]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> to right-wing oil billionaires behind the [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] PragerU.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Claire Goforth|date=2019-10-25|title=PragerU is conservatism for the youths—brought to you by old billionaires|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/prager-u-benefactors-dan-wilks-sheldon-adelson/|newspaper=|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=|title=Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/dennis-prager-university.html|newspaper=|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Additionally, one of the richest individuals in the world, [[Jeff Bezos]] (the owner of [[Amazon.com, Inc.|Amazon]]), owns and controls the [[The Washington Post|Washington Post]] in order to promote his own financial interests.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Alan Macleod]]|date=2021-06-18|title=With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203143509/https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> | In the [[United States of America|United States]], 6 corporations control 90% of all of broadcast media.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Nickie Lousie|date=2020-09-18|title=These 6 corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America. The illusion of choice and objectivity|url=https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/|newspaper=techstartups.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Individual billionaires also bankroll their own propaganda outlets, ranging from liberal [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] like Bill Gates<ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Alan Macleod]]|date=2021-11-15|title=Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/|newspaper=[[Mintpress News]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> to right-wing oil billionaires behind the [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[PragerU]].<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Claire Goforth|date=2019-10-25|title=PragerU is conservatism for the youths—brought to you by old billionaires|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/prager-u-benefactors-dan-wilks-sheldon-adelson/|newspaper=|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=|title=Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/dennis-prager-university.html|newspaper=|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> Additionally, one of the richest individuals in the world, [[Jeff Bezos]] (the owner of [[Amazon.com, Inc.|Amazon]]), owns and controls the [[The Washington Post|Washington Post]] in order to promote his own financial interests.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Alan Macleod]]|date=2021-06-18|title=With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203143509/https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> | ||
In recent times, the [[far-right]] section of the Statesian corporate-news has increasingly radicalized their content, often taking advantage of the desparate economic state among the [[petite-bourgeoisie]], and spreading racist, xenophobic, and nativist propaganda, particularly in regards to undocumented immigration in the southern border of the USA, which many far-right news corporations, such as [[FOX]], have used to spread [[White Genocide Conspiracy Theory|white-supremacist]] [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Dan Kennedy|newspaper=GBH|title=Tucker Carlson Is A White Supremacist. And He's Giving Fox Viewers Exactly What They Want.|date=2021-4-15|url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2021/04/15/tucker-carlson-is-a-white-supremacist-and-hes-giving-fox-viewers-exactly-what-they-want}}</ref> | |||
==Support for war== | ==Support for war== | ||
As US General Smedly Butler said, [[Library:War is a racket|war is a racket]]. The corporations that own the media are usually the beneficiaries of this racket, either directly through investments, or indirectly through the economic activity as a result of imperialist war.<ref>[https://miscellanynews.org/2021/05/13/opinions/the-improper-meshing-of-the-corporate-media-and-the-military-industrial-complex/ The (im)proper meshing of the corporate media and the military-industrial complex]</ref><ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/push-for-war-highlights-need-for-independent-media_b_58ee8b0ce4b04cae050dc423 Push for War Highlights Need for Independent Media]</ref><ref>[https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-media-are-erasing-uss-long-term-culpability-for-afghanistan-war/ Corporate Media Are Erasing US’s Long-Term Culpability for Afghanistan War] on [[TruthOut]]</ref><ref>{{News citation|author=[[Jimmy Dore]]|newspaper=[[The Jimmy Dore Show]]|title=Unhinged Pro-War Maniac Rant Welcomed On MSNBC|url=https://youtu.be/hb0jpkkzHGg}}</ref> | As US General Smedly Butler said, [[Library:War is a racket|war is a racket]]. The corporations that own the media are usually the beneficiaries of this racket, either directly through investments, or indirectly through the economic activity as a result of imperialist war.<ref>[https://miscellanynews.org/2021/05/13/opinions/the-improper-meshing-of-the-corporate-media-and-the-military-industrial-complex/ The (im)proper meshing of the corporate media and the military-industrial complex]</ref><ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/push-for-war-highlights-need-for-independent-media_b_58ee8b0ce4b04cae050dc423 Push for War Highlights Need for Independent Media]</ref><ref>[https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-media-are-erasing-uss-long-term-culpability-for-afghanistan-war/ Corporate Media Are Erasing US’s Long-Term Culpability for Afghanistan War] on [[TruthOut]]</ref><ref>{{News citation|author=[[Jimmy Dore]]|newspaper=[[The Jimmy Dore Show]]|title=Unhinged Pro-War Maniac Rant Welcomed On MSNBC|url=https://youtu.be/hb0jpkkzHGg}}</ref> | ||
==Attacks against progressive candidates== | ==Attacks against progressive candidates== | ||
Despite the fact that many "progressives" are merely social-democrats who do not challenge the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] system, they're still attacked by the corporate media for weakly threatening the control that corporations hold over society.<ref>[https://politicsdoneright.com/2019/11/corporate-media-progressive-candidates/ Corporate media attacks Progressive candidates after Democratic Debate]</ref><ref>[https://btlonline.org/bias-against-progressive-candidates-evident-in-corporate-media-coverage-of-democratic-primary/ Bias Against Progressive Candidates Evident in Corporate Media Coverage of Democratic Primary]</ref><ref>[https://truthout.org/articles/the-people-vs-the-democratic-establishment-the-coming-attack-on-progressive-candidates/ The People vs. the Democratic Establishment: The Coming Attack on Progressive Candidates]</ref> | Despite the fact that many "progressives" are merely [[Social Democracy|social-democrats]] who do not challenge the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] system, they're still attacked by the corporate media for weakly threatening the control that corporations hold over society.<ref>[https://politicsdoneright.com/2019/11/corporate-media-progressive-candidates/ Corporate media attacks Progressive candidates after Democratic Debate]</ref><ref>[https://btlonline.org/bias-against-progressive-candidates-evident-in-corporate-media-coverage-of-democratic-primary/ Bias Against Progressive Candidates Evident in Corporate Media Coverage of Democratic Primary]</ref><ref>[https://truthout.org/articles/the-people-vs-the-democratic-establishment-the-coming-attack-on-progressive-candidates/ The People vs. the Democratic Establishment: The Coming Attack on Progressive Candidates]</ref> | ||
== Alternatives == | == Alternatives == | ||
Revision as of 21:26, 15 July 2022
Bourgeois media is means of communication (usually news media) that is owned, controlled, or otherwise serves the interests of the bourgeois class.[1][2] Bourgeois media can be either state-owned, such as UK's BBC or Qatar's Al Jazeera, or for-profit media, such as AT&T-owned CNN. In common political discourse, the term "corporate media" is also used to specifically refer to means of communication controlled by for-profit corporations promoting their own interests.[3][4]
United States
In the United States, 6 corporations control 90% of all of broadcast media.[5] Individual billionaires also bankroll their own propaganda outlets, ranging from liberal Democrats like Bill Gates[6] to right-wing oil billionaires behind the anti-communist PragerU.[7][8] Additionally, one of the richest individuals in the world, Jeff Bezos (the owner of Amazon), owns and controls the Washington Post in order to promote his own financial interests.[9]
In recent times, the far-right section of the Statesian corporate-news has increasingly radicalized their content, often taking advantage of the desparate economic state among the petite-bourgeoisie, and spreading racist, xenophobic, and nativist propaganda, particularly in regards to undocumented immigration in the southern border of the USA, which many far-right news corporations, such as FOX, have used to spread white-supremacist conspiracy theories.[10]
Support for war
As US General Smedly Butler said, war is a racket. The corporations that own the media are usually the beneficiaries of this racket, either directly through investments, or indirectly through the economic activity as a result of imperialist war.[11][12][13][14]
Attacks against progressive candidates
Despite the fact that many "progressives" are merely social-democrats who do not challenge the capitalist system, they're still attacked by the corporate media for weakly threatening the control that corporations hold over society.[15][16][17]
Alternatives
See also
References
- ↑ Lenin (1917). Draft Resolution On Freedom Of The Press. [MIA]
- ↑ "The American Empire and its Media". Swiss Policy Research.
- ↑ Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People by Paul Street on CounterPunch on Aug 17, 2018
- ↑ After 20 Years of Failed War, Corporate Media Still Give Wars of Empire a Pass by Robin Andersen on CounterPunch
- ↑ Nickie Lousie (2020-09-18). "These 6 corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America. The illusion of choice and objectivity" techstartups.com.
- ↑ Alan Macleod (2021-11-15). "Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets" Mintpress News.
- ↑ Claire Goforth (2019-10-25). "PragerU is conservatism for the youths—brought to you by old billionaires"
- ↑ "Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time".
- ↑ Alan Macleod (2021-06-18). "With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board" MintPress News. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Dan Kennedy (2021-4-15). "Tucker Carlson Is A White Supremacist. And He's Giving Fox Viewers Exactly What They Want." GBH.
- ↑ The (im)proper meshing of the corporate media and the military-industrial complex
- ↑ Push for War Highlights Need for Independent Media
- ↑ Corporate Media Are Erasing US’s Long-Term Culpability for Afghanistan War on TruthOut
- ↑ Jimmy Dore. "Unhinged Pro-War Maniac Rant Welcomed On MSNBC" The Jimmy Dore Show.
- ↑ Corporate media attacks Progressive candidates after Democratic Debate
- ↑ Bias Against Progressive Candidates Evident in Corporate Media Coverage of Democratic Primary
- ↑ The People vs. the Democratic Establishment: The Coming Attack on Progressive Candidates