Do you know who owns your TV?
The Project Censored team researched the board members of 10 major media organizations from newspaper to television to radio.
Of these ten organizations, 118 individuals were identified, who sit on 288 different American and international corporate boards proving a close on-going interlock between big media and corporate America.
The Project Censored team found media directors who also were former Senators or Representatives in the House such as Sam Nunn (Disney) and William Cohen (Viacom). Board members served at the FCC such as William Kennard (New York Times) and Dennis FitzSimmons (Tribune Company) showing revolving door relationships with big media and U.S. government officials.
These ten big media organizations are the main source of news for most Americans. Their corporate ties require us to continually scrutinize the quality of their news for bias.
Disney owns ABC so it comes as no surprise that the board of Disney does not allow negative news about their board of directors friends such as Halliburton or Boeing.
Board members in other media organizations have connections to Ford, Kraft, and Kimberly-Clark who employ tens of thousands of Americans. Is it possible that the U.S. workforce receives only the corporate news private companies want them to hear?
Do we collectively realize that working people in the U.S. have longer hours, lower pay and fewer benefits than their foreign counterparts?
If these companies control the media, they control the dissemination of news turning the First Amendment on its head by protecting corporate interests over people.
Source: http://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/corporate-media-ownership/
Media Ownership and Governance.
A board of directors is a group of individuals chosen by the stockholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company. Board members in most legal jurisdictions have specific fiduciary duties, whereby they act for the benefit of others. Click here to find out who runs the major media in the US and which companies and organizations are associated with the media organizations.
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