The
New York Times Admits That Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials
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‘In one of the most shocking articles that
the New York Times has ever put out, a New York Times reporter has openly
admitted that virtually every major mainstream news organization allows
government bureaucrats and campaign officials to censor their stories.
For example, almost every major news organization in the country has agreed to
submit virtually all quotes from anyone involved in the Obama campaign or the
Romney campaign to gatekeepers for "quote approval" before they will
be published. If the gatekeeper in the Obama campaign does not want a
certain quote to get out, the American people will not see it, and the same
thing applies to the Romney campaign. The goal is to keep the campaigns
as "on message" as possible and to avoid gaffes at all cost.
But this kind of thing is not just happening with political campaigns.
According to the New York Times, "quote approval" has become
"commonplace throughout
The
following quote comes from the recent article in the New York Times
mentioned above and it is absolutely jaw dropping....
The
quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful
metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.
They
are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in
Most
reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists,
grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their
tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review.
The
verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying
consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this
message.
This
is an article that everyone needs to read. If you have not read it yet,
you can find it right here.
What
all of this means is that both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign
essentially have "veto power" over any quotes from those campaigns
that we see in the newspapers.
According
to the New York Times,
virtually every major news organization has agreed to submit their quotes for
"quote approval"....
It
was difficult to find a news outlet that had not agreed to quote approval,
albeit reluctantly. Organizations like Bloomberg, The
This
is absolutely disgusting, and it goes against everything that our media is
supposed to stand for.
The
following is what Joseph Farah had to
say when he learned about this story....
All
I can say about these people I once considered “colleagues” is that I am so
ashamed of them. I am mortified. They are humiliating themselves and a vital
institution for any free society.
It
seems the biggest threat to the American tradition of a free and independent
press is not government coercion. It’s the willing submission of the press to
being handled and managed by government and politicians.
Keep
in mind that Joseph Farah has been working in the world of journalism for
decades. He is deeply saddened to see what is happening to a profession
that he deeply loves.
But
he is not the only one.
Just
check out what Dan Rather had to say during a speech back in 2009....
“At
my age and stage I've finally reached the point where I don't have to kiss up
to anybody,” he said. “What a wonderful feeling it is.”
Even
so, his talk emphasized what he believes is the erosion of quality journalism,
because of the corporatization, politicization, and “trivialization” of news.
Those three factors, Rather argued, have fueled the “dumbing
down and sleezing up of news” and the decline of “great
American journalism.”
Likening
media consolidation to that of the banking industry, Rather claimed that “roughly
80 percent” of the media is controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few
as four, corporations.
And
Dan Rather is right. The control over the media in the
Back
in the early 1980s, approximately 50 corporations essentially had
nearly total control of the media in the
Today,
just six monolithic media corporations dominate virtually everything you watch, hear and read.
These
six gigantic corporations own television networks, publishing houses, movie
studios, newspapers, radio stations, music labels and video game
companies. Most Americans are absolutely addicted to information and
entertainment, and those six massive corporations supply the vast majority of
the information and entertainment that Americans take in.
The
amount of control that those six corporate giants have is absolutely
incredible. For example, the average American watches 153 hours of television a month. If
you can beam 153 hours of "programming" into someone's head each
month, that gives you an awesome amount of influence over that person.
The
six monolithic corporations mentioned above are Time Warner, Walt Disney,
Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal.
There
are some areas of the media that are not completely dominated by those
corporations, but even control over those areas is becoming more highly
concentrated than ever.
For
example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations
across the
Even
control over the Internet is becoming much more concentrated. Giant
corporations such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and
Microsoft are increasingly controlling what we see and hear online.
But
it really is the "big six" that dominate most of what we see, hear
and read on a daily basis.
In a previous article, I detailed a
portion of the vast media holdings of these gigantic corporations....
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Today,
six colossal media giants tower over all the rest. Much of the
information in the chart below comes from mediaowners.com. The chart below reveals only a
small fraction of the media outlets that these six behemoths actually own....
Time Warner
Home
Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine
Walt Disney
ABC
Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Hyperion Books
Viacom
Paramount
Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1
News Corporation
Dow
Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan
CBS Corporation
CBS
News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network
NBC Universal
Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Trio
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video
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Please
keep in mind that the list above is not exhaustive. It only contains a
sampling of the companies that those six corporate giants own.
So
are you starting to get an idea of how powerful they are?
If
you ever wondered why the version of "the news" that you get is so
similar no matter where you turn, it is because control of the news is
concentrated in just a very few hands.
So
who controls the "big six" media corporations?
Would
it surprise you to know that the boards of directors of those big media
corporations have a tremendous amount of overlap with the boards of directors
of large banks, large oil companies and large pharmaceutical companies?
The
following is from the
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting website....
Media corporations share members of the board of
directors with a variety of other large corporations, including banks,
investment companies, oil companies, health care and pharmaceutical companies
and technology companies.
You
can find a list that shows how these boards of directors overlap and interlock right here.
The
giant media corporations are not going to criticize the establishment because
they are the
establishment.
The
messages that these media behemoths pound into our heads are going to be the
messages that the establishment wants pounded into our heads.
Anyone
that believes that the mainstream media is "independent" and that it
does not have "an agenda" is being delusional.
Of
course it is also worth mentioning that much of what we get from the mainstream
media is also often directly controlled by the federal government.
Former
Not
that the federal government and the establishment are opposed to one
another. The truth is that they very much work together hand in
hand. But sometimes the federal government has slightly different
priorities than the corporate establishment does.
In
any event, the key point to take away from all this is that the news and
entertainment that we all enjoy on a daily basis if very highly censored and
very highly controlled.
It is
imperative that we understand that those that own and control the media are
trying to shape society in a certain way. They want to impose their
values and their vision of the future on all the rest of us.
You
will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the "Big
Brother" police state control grid that is going in all around us.
Instead,
they insist that all of this added "security" will keep us safe even
as our liberties and freedoms are being badly eroded.
You
will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the population
control agenda of the global elite.
Instead,
they insist that more "family planning" will help the environment and
make the world a more prosperous place for all of us.
You
will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the Federal Reserve and none of them are
warning us about the financial collapse that is rapidly
approaching.
Instead,
they tell us to keep having faith in the system and they promise us that
everything is going to be okay.
Well,
you can mindlessly believe the corporate media if you want, but I believe that
in this day and age it is absolutely imperative that we all learn to think for
ourselves.
Don't
be a mindless robot for anyone.
Think
for yourself and make your own decisions.
The
truth is out there and you can find it if you are willing to go search for it.
