WHO OWNS THE MEDIA?
BROADCAST & PRINT

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The broadcast media along with major magazine and newspaper chains throughout our country were deregulated over the past decade. Since that time previously independent radio and television stations, newspapers, and magazines have come to be owned by a very few powerful multinational corporations including:

• General Electric
• Viacom / Westinghouse
• Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation
• Disney Corporation
• Time-Warner-AOL Corporation, and
• Bertelsmann Corporation.

Public radio and television stations throughout the country are now openly sponsored and directly influenced by oil, gas, and agra-chemical multinational corporations. Those same corporations also own nearly all the book publishers both here in the United States, and throughout the western world.

For more information:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants/
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
http://www.fair.org/media-woes/corporate.html

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There are very few independent broadcast media in the United States. The Pacifica Foundation with stations in New York - WBAI, Washington, D.C. - WPFW, Houston - KPFT, Los Angeles - KPFK, and Berkeley - KPFA is a notable exception.

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