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WHo owns CNN? MSNBC? ABC?

by systemfailure
So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)
Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.
Other Holdings:
Hughes Aircraft (military aircraft)
* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.
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WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:
Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)
Television Holdings:
* CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
* Group W Satellite Communications.
Other Holdings:
* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry.
* Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US.
* Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.
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VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Television Holdings:
* Paramount Television, Spelling Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, UPN (joint owner), Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel (joint owner), Flix.
* 20 major market US stations.
Media Holdings:
* Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks.
* Simon & Schuster Publishing.
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DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)
Television Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Media Holdings:
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
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TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW's 2000 campaign)
America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner–the largest merger in corporate history.
Television Holdings:
* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%).
* Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.
Media Holdings:
* HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
* Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
* 33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.
Other Holdings:
* Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.
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NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
Television Holdings:
* Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
* The Golf Channel (33%).
MEDIA HOLDINGS:
* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.
* 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
* 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* HarperCollins books.
OTHER HOLDINGS:
* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League.
* Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).
*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*
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by John Hammell (jham [at] iahf.com)
I do not trust Jeff Rense. He just stabbed me in the back, and I'm wondering if anyone has any info on who owns the Talk Radio Network which is is under contract to? I note that his radio career was initially backed by Paramount Pictures which is an ABC affiliate. He has some major bucks behind him and I'd like to know from where? He is syndicated on over 100 mainstream radio stations, thats the controlled media, he's on the air 18-20 hours per week- that takes megabucks- airtime could be around $145. per hour, it must be astronomically expensive to maintain his website with over 10,000 articles plus archives of all his shows--- who pays for all THAT? I was on his show July 10th, its archived on his site but he's not helping us in the way I feel anyone would if they were GENUINELY "for the people". If he were, he'd have no problem pitching support from the front page of his site to the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive, but he's not doing that, he's climbed aboard NNFA's pharmaceutically dominated bandwagon and is distracting people with a red herring issue, urging everyone to actively oppose Durbin's bill S.722 even though it has no support and won't even make it out of committee, but its serving to DISTRACT people from the REAL issue which is the need for donations to the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplements Directive which has huge global ramifications- see http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html for info, see http://www.alliance-natural-health.org to donate and see info. Does anyone know who owns the Talk Radio Network that Rense currently has a contract with? Can anyone tell me anything more about the guy than from what I can learn from his bio and from this painful experience? He has totally turned on me, not something a REAL friend would do.
by John Hammell
Upon closer inspection I see that Talk Radio Network http://www.talkradionetwork.com utilizes ABC's satellite facilities. I also notice that Art Bell got his start on the TRN before his show was sold to Premier. I have never trusted Art Bell. Now I don't trust Rense either. A friend, Jackie Patru http://www.sweetliberty.org who has a very small radio program told me that the dead giveaway is if someone is being broadcast over mainstream radio stations and Rense is being broadcast on 100 of them, with 18-20 hours a week of airtime. Jackie told me she pays $145. per week for her airtime and that she struggles to be on the air for just 2 hours per week. She looked at his site, saw 10,000 article plus all his shows archived and said "Who's paying for all of that, the expense must be astronomical!!" I agree. We talked some more and came to the conclusion that the role he could be playing is as follows: a lot of what he says are true, so he has gained this huge following, people then uncritically except EVERYTHING he's said as true, because HE said it, its almost a cult like following, then once and a while he'll slip in something thats NOT true, but people ACCEPT it as true, because it came from him. In MY case he certainly is doing this to mess me up. He did a show on July 10th with Rob Verkerk from Alliance for Natural Health and I about the lawsuit which ANH will be filing to overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive. The global implications of that are HUGE and they threaten to impact the US. See http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html If he were for REAL, (which I obviously question), he'd have put a hot link from the front of his site to the ANH website encouraging the public to make badly needed donations. But he's not doing that. What he's doing instead is to focus vitamin consumer's attention on what amounts to be a RED HERRING: Senator Durbin's bill, S.722. While admittedly this IS a bad bill, and it SHOULD be opposed, the reality is that its NOT moving, (only 3 cosponsors), and it probably won't even make it out of committee. 96% of all bills are never passed into law, and this one has some huge opposition and its been stonewalled. I have been a professional health freedom lobbyist since '89 and can assess the relative threats posed by different things to consumer access to supplements. I am tracking Durbin's bill, but at the present time it does NOT pose the biggest threat, ANH's possibly not getting sufficient backing DOES pose a MUCH bigger threat. When I raised this issue by responding to someone on my email list who emailed me in concern about Durbin's bill, I emailed back that it was a red herring and I copied the bill to Rense for informational purposes. He posted it on his site. Some ignorant voicer complained and was highly critical of what I was saying. Rense posted their statement, but would not allow me to respond. I could have provided a detailed, very reasoned response fully explaining my position, but was NOT ALLOWED TO. That is CENSORSHIP. When Rense refused to post my response, he commented to me that my previous email had "offended a lot of my strongest supporters". Well maybe it DID, but I'm not doing my health freedom work trying to win a POPULARITY CONTEST, I'm doing it to try to protect my LIFE and the LIVES of OTHERS who also have serious needs for the supplements they take, and things are often not as simple as they may first appear. I complained about this censorship to Rense and was ignored. So I let my email distribution list know about it. Several people wrote to Rense in my defense, including Attorney Ralph Fucetola http://www.vitaminlawyer.com Herbalist Gayle Eversole http://www.leaflady.org and many others. One supporter in Scotland named Jane received a response from someone on Rense's staff named Ellen who attempted to depict ME as a "disinfo specialist and as a deep cover pharma plant" and tried to say that Jane had been "duped"! I was characterized very negatively by Ellen in a clear effort to try to harm my reputation. Anyone with any additional info about the Talk Radio Network, who owns it, and about Jeff Rense, who I now totally distrust, please email it to me at jham [at] iahf.com Thanks.
by wrh?
What do you think about whatreallyhappened.com? I regularly read that site but others I know won't.

I agree that Rense is messed up. I never look there unless wrh has a link. I didn't know there was a radio component.

Thanks for the info.
by Daimnation!
The mysterious "S. Boyle" has posted an expose of Mikey Rivero and whatreallyhappened.com on several IndyMedia websites (see http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/42317). It turns out that our favorite conspiro-freakazoid has some shady corporate backing - and he used to write for a white-supremacist magazine. (Remember, this guy says Israel is "racist".) Boyle actually cites my own sordid experience trying to convince Mikey that Ariel Sharon never said, "we, the Jewish people, control America".

I direct your attention to the D.C. IndyMedia site, where one respondent says Rivero is a government disinformation specialist. Which would make a lot of sense, come to think of it:

Rivero, What Really Happened, Go off, Dandelion, Gordon Thomas are essentially all part of an inbred and incestuous network of Right Wing propagandists and disinformation artists.

They included not only the standard Hard Right outlets like Newsmax but also Christian Fascist moupieces like Dandelion.

Their political function and agenda in general is to act as a phony opposition or Trojan Horse media specifically targetted towards those people who question the official story. If you study the disinformation put out by these propagandists, you will see a similar pattern in that they question the official story or version of events--only to carefully spin the issue in a way which just so happens to reinforce their own Right Wing agendas and political campaigns.

In particular with respect to 9-11, most of the sites have tried to seize upon obvious holes and lies in the official story about 9-11 in order to direct and deflect blame AWAY from the Bush Regime and American State in general towards some foreign bogeyman or patsy.

The bottom line is that these pseudo-alternative media outlets set up by the Right Wing have the effect of being classic CIA style psyops operations. They question the official story, only to steer and focus attention away from the more fascistic political factions which support the American military-corporate complex onto a suitable "enemy" foreign or domestic.

Gotta love these 'Midiots.

Update: Oh, this is just beautiful. Rivero himself actually posts a pathetic non-response on IndyMedia UK (see http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48669&group=webcast), in which he admits to posting the white-supremacist magazine on his website, but rationalizes it thusly:

In point of fact I was never an editor for the Resister. I merely posted the newsletter as received. And, as onorous as the statement "created by white men for white men" may be to modern sensibilitirs, that was in fact the philosophy of the foubnders of the nation, as evidenced by their treatment of the natives.

Glad he cleared that up. Rivero also says a google search will prove that an Israeli company in the World Trade Center was warned about the 9/11 attacks, and ends with a series of "quotes" which supposedly prove that, surprise, Israel is racist. Almost all of the quotes are taken grossly out of context or are obviously phony - including (you guessed it!) Ariel Sharon saying, "we, the Jewish people control America."
I say so too.

What are you, a zionist?
by hahahahaaa
The lack of attention is what is amazing as opposed to other "regimes".
by .
It's quite simple. The Arab-Israeli issue affects not just the 15+ million people living between the meditterrean and the jordan, but the hundreds of millions/billions of Christians, Jews and Muslims who feel a connection to this land. Since the USA is the prime sponsor (and Israel the USA's largest donor for foreign aid) and raced to be the first to recognize the modern state of israel, it affects every citizen of America who pays taxes, which, unfortunately, is most of us.
I agree the anti-zionist/facist vs. the zionist/facist posting are quite ridiculous, but i suggest some of the trolls/frequenters of these threads find a more private or topical means of conversing, so things don't get so personal and nasty and long and repetitive.
Let's keep the free marketplace of ideas alive.
by John Hammell (jham [at] iahf.com)
Upon examining Rense's site today I notice that he has removed his New Headline section about S.722, while simultaneously purging his site of my controversial post about the bill in which I called it a "red herring." He did, however, leave other posts which reflect his original supposed concerns about the bill. He really is a disinfo agent who engages in censorship whenever and wherever it suits him. His show would not be aired in all the mainstream radio markets that its in if he weren't playing their game in a way that they want, and TRN is closely affiliated with ABC- they utilize ABC's satellite facilities. I am still trying to learn anything more about Talk Radio Network if anyone can tell me anything more about who owns it.
by John Hammell
Have you read the book One Nation Under Israel, which documents the extreme power of the Israeli lobby in DC? I'm not saying I agree with the whole book, but it is well written, solidly documented, discusses the hijacking of the US Congress by AIPAC and it does provide considerable food for thought.

For example-

During the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, the U.S. electronic and intelligence research vessel Liberty was cruising in international waters in the Mediterranean and was suddenly attacked by Israeli torpedo boats and jet aircraft. The attack, which lasted almost two hours, killed 34 American sailors and wounded 171.

The story of the intentional attack on the USS Liberty and the shameful efforts of the U.S. government to cover up Israel's duplicity, is told in a book entitle Assault on the Liberty, by the cypher officer of the USS Liberty, James M. Ennes, Jr., published after his retirement from the navey in 1980,(p. 141).

Is it right that this story was kept out of the American press? Is it right that Israel was never held accountable for killing 34 American sailors and wounding 134 in an unprovoked attack by neutral non combatants aboard a ship operating in international waters? Of course this wasn't right! Any time censorship keeps people from learning the truth, its just like Nazi Germany! While this may not be a "politically correct" thing to say in the case of Israel, its none the less true!

You should read this book before taking such a knee jerk pro Israel position. Let me know what you think after you read it.
See this review http://www.whtt.org/articles/onui.htm
by Johann Visthinov
The attack on the USS Liberty was certainly a tragedy. But to rule it a deliberate premeditated attack is extraordinarily naive. Ask yourself the following questions: What could Israel possibly gain by doing such a thing? Why would Israel want to risk its friendship with its most reliable ally? In the middle of a three-front war you don't bite the hand that feeds you, especially when your enemies are being supplied with Soviet arms and trained by Soviet officers?
(This is the middle of the Cold War (and the 60's), in case you forgot.) Finally, with regards to some vast gov't conspiracy to cover the whole thing up. Israel has apologized publicly for the event. The U.S . government has lead multiple investigations. But if the U.S. military made an error which might have contributed to this unfortunate accident, it is understandable why the military might want to rosy things up a bit.

Honestly Mr. Hammel you should read more, think more, and say less.







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