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who owns the media

So who owns the media?

Fox News is openly owned by Rupert Murdoch, a hardline supporter of the Republican Party, but the other major media corporations are in the same boat, affiliated if not directly owned by companies that make their living doing business with our military. In effect, the major media in the United States makes a good portion of their income from war.

No wonder these companies use the scare tactics of terrorism, scarrorism as I like to call it. They are business partners in the same secret club. A scared citizenship afraid of the phantom bad guy is good business when you make a living killing people. And anyone who threatens their business is labelled ''a nutjob'' and denied airtime.

Want proof?

The Nightly News, Presented by Halliburton

NBC is owned by General Electric, who also owns MSNBC and CNBC. GE also owns Bravo, Telemundo, USA Network, and the Sci-Fi Channel, among others. GE was awarded $2.2 billion in military contracts in 2005, and according to the War Profiteers website:

''General Electric is one of the world?’s top three producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and helicopters.''

CBS is owned by the former Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, a division of Westinghouse. WBC purchased all of CBS in 1996 and dropped it's name in favor of the less ominous title, CBS Company, which was in turn purchased by Viacom. Besides making the appliances and household electronics we know them for, Westinghouse used to own Northrup Grumman, who makes nuclear powered aircraft carriers, military airplanes, smart bombs and nuclear bombs, and is one of the largest military contractors in the United States. Despite the sale of Northrup, Westinghouse still makes nuclear reactors for U.S. submarines as well as electronics for the military and manufactures arms. Those same arms that are used to kill Iraqi's and Afghani's.

But it's much worse than you think. One of the longstanding members of the board of directors for Westinghouse was Frank Carlucci. Carlucci served as Secretary of Defense before Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor before Colin Powell, and also as the CIA Deputy Director. Carlucci also served as chairman of Carlyle Group from 1992-2003 and as Emiritus Chairman until 2005. The Carlyle Group is an investment firm with ownership in multiple industries, but some of their defense contracts have been widely criticized. Former employees of the Carlyle Group include George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and James Baker.

We can go on and on, but let's give one specific example of how lobbying works. When Viacom bought CBS, they broke U.S. laws concerning media ownership that is meant to protect the public from media manipulation by giant corporations. Within a week of the purchase, Senator John McCain proposed a change to U.S. law allowing Viacom to complete the purchase. Not coincidentally, Viacom is the fourth largest donor to John McCain's campaigns over his 25 year career in politics.

Knowing this, it's no wonder why NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and other mainstream media were so eagerly jumped into bed with Fox to consistently report lies and planted stories as news and stop asking the hard questions journalists are supposed to ask. And it's equally no wonder why they attack people like Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, people they perceive as threats to their income and way of doing business.

Dave, Dave, Dave

You got it all wrong. Haven't you heard? There's a LIBERAL media bias. L.I.B.E.R.A.L....

All kidding aside, whether liberal or conservative doesn't matter. The media has played a huge role in putting our country in the situation it currently finds itself. They've played the lapdogs for far too long now. These days, true journalists are run out of town as the rest of the media continues to inundate us with stories of the Spears sisters and the latest Paris and Nicole spat. Why? Because the truth is always labeled as ''partisan attacks'' and those in the media don't want to lose their access to the power players. Consequently, they don't ask the hard questions and they don't pursue the complicated stories. Ultimately, sex sells and if there's no sex involved then it's not going to play with the public. That's why we hear hours about things like affairs, prostitutes, and ''wide stances'' but little about things like the human rights abuses being perpetrated in our name in the Northern Mariana Islands.

It's shameful to think that our media, who's supposed to be the watchdogs for the public, are as corrupt as the people they're supposed to be reporting on.