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  The Black Commentator - The Awesome Destructive Power of the Corporate Power Media - Issue 75
Corporate media conspired — which is what businessmen in boardrooms do as a matter of daily routine — not only to shield the public from dissenting opinions (their usual assignment), but to drastically diminish, distort and even erase huge gatherings that were profoundly newsworthy by any rational standard.
Corporate media’s ties to the Pirates in Washington are organic and nearly seamless.
Like a Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the corporate media rose with one voice to question Dean’s “electability.” It is important to note that in mid-December, according to Newsweek’s poll, Dean, Kerry and Clark were doing equally in a match-up with George Bush, at 40, 41, and 41 percent, respectively.
www.blackcommentator.com /75/75_cover_dean_media.html   (2128 words)

  
 Project Censored Media democracy in action
Broadly covered in the media, as well, was the conviction of General Stanislav Galic by a UN tribunal for war crimes committed by Bosnian Serb troops under his command during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-94.
These stories show how corporate media likes to give the impression that the US government is working diligently to root out evil doers around the world and to build democracy and freedom.
The hypocrisy of US policy and corporate media complicity is evident in the coverage of Donald Rumsfeld's stop over in Mazar-e Sharif Afghanistan December 4 to meet with regional warlord and mass killer General Abdul Rashid Dostum and his rival General Ustad Atta Mohammed.
www.projectcensored.org /newsflash/corporatemedia.html   (754 words)

  
 Mass media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state.
Sometimes mass media (and the news media in particular) are referred to as the "corporate media".
The term "corporate media" is often used by leftist media critics to imply that the mainstream media are themselves composed of large multinational corporations, and promote those interests (see e.g., Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Herman and Chomsky's "A Propaganda Model").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mass_media   (3992 words)

  
 corporate media
There is another sector of the media, the elite media, sometimes called the agenda-setting media because they are the ones with the big resources, they set the framework in which everyone else operates.
Media devoted to the public interest would investigate the poor performance by the CIA, the FBI, the FAA and the CDC, so that those agencies might be improved for our protection--but the news teams (just like Congress) haven't bothered to look into it.
First, key media personalities in such a society should never lie to the people, whose capacity for making intelligent and informed policy and voting choices is damaged by dishonest, deceitful or disingenuous reportage and commentary.
www.omnicenter.org /justicecollection/media.htm   (13791 words)

  
 Corporate Media to Voters: We'll Tell You Who Can Be President
But when you're exposing the frightening power of corporate media to effectively strip voters of their choices, crush a candidacy, and hide front-page news from the public eye, it can be tough not to sound hyperbolic.
Corporate media conspired - which is what businessmen in boardrooms do as a matter of daily routine - not only to shield the public from dissenting opinions (their usual assignment), but to drastically diminish, distort and even erase huge gatherings that were profoundly newsworthy by any rational standard.
The organs of corporate speech all march to the same tune because there is not a dime's worth of difference between their owners.
www.reclaimdemocracy.com /articles_2004/corporate_media_chooses_president.html   (2472 words)

  
 Corporate Media & Consolidation
It's official: Revelations that the FCC suppressed reports on the danger of media consolidation prove the agency is overwhelmingly biased in favor of big media.
Corporations used to disguise their attempts to masquerade as "indie," but now they've become invisible to the naked eye.
National media are increasingly catering to the highly mobile, globalized, mostly white middle class, leaving those who can't afford access to slip into a separate and unequal world of second-class information.
www.thenation.com /directory/corporate_media_consolidation   (940 words)

  
 Corporate Media
After all, corporations were there during the early days of radio and television, and some of those same corporations are still in the game today.
Corporate interests are not well served by the reporting of bad news—it depresses consumer sentiment and spending.
A relatively recent and troubling trend is that some news and corporate media outlets are actually coordinating "talking points" with government agencies, or at a minimum giving unquestioning coverage to multiple government officials and/or politicos all spouting the same coordinated message du jour.
www.grinningplanet.com /2006/update-2003-11-06/corporate-media-article.htm   (1768 words)

  
 Corporate Blogging Survey 2005 - Executive Summary
What we discovered was that for the majority of our survey sample —including some of today’s largest corporations and scrappiest underdogs —corporate blogs are, in fact, living up to all the hype.
Corporate blogs are giving established companies and obscure brands alike the ability to connect with their audiences on a more personal level, build trust, collect valuable feedback and foster strengthened business relationships.
Backbone Media, Inc. Grants permission for re-use of the content herein with the understanding that the user will cite the authors and include a reference to Backbone Media, Inc. with the following ink: http://www.backbonemedia.com.
www.backbonemedia.com /blogsurvey   (492 words)

  
 Corporate media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Corporate media" is a term which refers to a system of media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations, and is governed by the capitalist imperatives of maximizing profits for the investors, stockholders, and advertisers.
Studies also show that those who rely on the media for their information have a poor understanding of the issues and are unable to discern misrepresentations in political advertising.
Also, contrast with Citizen Media, a grassroots, all-inclusive, public access, participatory media system which serves the public interest naturally by allowing anyone to be a producer or content provider.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corporate_media   (714 words)

  
 The U.S. has a liberal media
The U.S. media are rapidly being monopolized by a dwindling number of parent corporations, all of whom have conservative economic agendas.
The fact is that conservatives have powerful friends in the media: the corporations that own them, and the corporations that pay for their advertising.
Reagan had staffed the FCC with corporate media types who were bent on deregulating the media at all costs, and were thus hostile to the Fairness Doctrine.
www.huppi.com /kangaroo/L-liberalmedia.htm   (5848 words)

  
 Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership - Global Issues
But ultimately it is politically conservative, because the media giants are significant beneficiaries of the current social structure around the world, and any upheaval in property or social relations—particularly to the extent that it reduces the power of business—is not in their interest.
In this respect, as the mainstream media is more corporate owned, the same market pressures that affect those companies, affect the media as well and hence, the media itself is largely driven by the forces of the market.
The Berlusconi media would then cover these events, quoting members of parliament or the government, which, in turn, would give an appearance of substance and reality to their initial charges, which would lead to a new round of media stories and a new round of reaction from the political world.
www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Corporations/Owners.asp   (6241 words)

  
 Independence from Corporate Media Week : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If they covered it at all, it was only when the grassroots opposition to this latest corporate powergrab grew too big to ignore - and after the media behemoths had already bought their majority on the FCC.
Or take your media activism to the doorstep of the national television networks: join Media Challenge in calling for the resignation of the TV Network News Chiefs for the distortions and omissions in their coverage of the war against Iraq.
Media deregulation, like prohibition, was a noble experiment that failed.
www.sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/06/1622458.php   (862 words)

  
 From Social Media to Corporate Media
Social Media Club is intended to be a place where amateurs and professionals can come together to learn from one another, to understand each other and to work together on the things that make meaning in their lives - their personal passions, their professional endeavors and their noble pursuits.
From Social Media to Corporate Media is an interactive workshop being presented by Social Media Club, the founders of BrainJams and some of the leading voices in the ‘unconference’ movement.
Robert Scoble will explain the strategy behind the Corporate Media he produced for Channel 9 at Microsoft and why he left to join PodTech.net, helping others such as Intel and SAP gain a strategic advantage using Social Media tools to create corporate media.
www.socialmediaclub.com /sm2cm   (2146 words)

  
 Corporate Control Of The Media - Congressman Bernie Sanders   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The media plays a crucial role in our democracy in providing objective and unbiased points of view.
Since Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the United States has seen an enormous upsurge in media consolidation that has led to the increased homogenization of what Americans see, hear, and read.
Budgets for investigative journalism have been reduced turning reporters into unofficial mouthpieces for the decision makers they are supposed to challenge.
www.bernie.house.gov /corporate_media/home.asp   (151 words)

  
 NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Big Media - Overview | PBS
NOW has addressed the issue of media consolidation several times in the past year — in "Virtual Radio," and Bill Moyers Journal on FCC Deregulation we presented information about how consolidation in the media industry may change what you hear and see.
When asked if relaxed media ownership rules would have a negative or positive effect on the country, 11 percent thought relaxed rules would be positive; 46 percent thought it would make no difference, and 34 percent thought the result would be negative.
The media ownership plan must be approved by a majority vote among the five commissioners, three of whom are Republicans (Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, Commissioner Kevin Martin, and Chairman Michael Powell) and two of whom are Democrats (Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and Commissioner Michael Copps).
www.pbs.org /now/politics/bigmedia.html   (856 words)

  
 Corporate Media Malfeasance: A BuzzFlash Update from the Memphis Media Reform Conference -- Part II | BuzzFlash.org
The mainstream media is part of the hierarchical public relations machine that sees news as being White House PR announcements about the news, not the news itself.
Today’s mainstream corporate media – at least as it relates to the White House – appears to consider government announcements – however implausible and however disastrous the government performance – as fact.
It is a war for the corporations to extend their greedy hands to a part of the world they could not influence or possess.
www.buzzflash.com /articles/analysis/172   (1554 words)

  
 Corporate Media archive at Mediacology
Indirectly, media are funded by petrodollars because the majority of advertising is for cars, thus the industry that builds and depends on a cheap oil economy uses commercial media as a propaganda machine for the dreams that automobiles would deliver us.
I’m not saying that corporate media are not dangerous to the planet, but we need newer ways of understanding, and unfortunately this particular clip features some outdated views of how media currently operate.
Face it, corporate media are invested in the hype and it serves them to not panic.
mediacology.com /category/corporate-media   (3293 words)

  
 Corporate Mass Media
She wanted people to be able to speak for themselves in their own media, rather than seeking access to someone else's media.
The media is an integral part of the everyday lives and culture of a large segment of the American public.
Stop Big Media "The StopBigMedia.com Coalition is an alliance of consumer, public interest, media reform, organized labor and other groups that have joined together to fight runaway media consolidation and urge the FCC to put public service before the self-interest of large media corporations.
www.wifp.org /MassMedia.html   (3482 words)

  
 Corporate Influence in the Media - Global Issues
The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.
Advertisers also exert direct and indirect influence on the media companies and their content in order to foster moods and cultures where consumers are more likely to buy their products.
Media companies sell consumers to their customers, the advertisers, that bring in the money that allows media companies to survive.
www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Corporations.asp   (574 words)

  
 Corporate Media - Home
Corporate Media has been strategically built on a business model that is intended to generate software to answer tomorrow's technology needs.
Corporate Media is a group of thinkers and architects.
Corporate Media integrated an online system to facilitate the scheduling and volunteer registrations for 320 time slots and responsibilities.
www.corporatemedia.com   (387 words)

  
 From Social Media to Corporate Media
Social Media Club is intended to be a place where amateurs and professionals can come together to learn from one another, to understand each other and to work together on the things that make meaning in their lives - their personal passions, their professional endeavors and their noble pursuits.
From Social Media to Corporate Media is an interactive workshop being presented by Social Media Club, the founders of BrainJams and some of the leading voices in the ‘unconference’ movement.
Robert Scoble will explain the strategy behind the Corporate Media he produced for Channel 9 at Microsoft and why he left to join PodTech.net, helping others such as Intel and SAP gain a strategic advantage using Social Media tools to create corporate media.
www.socialmediaclub.org /sm2cm   (2146 words)

  
 Sony Media Software - Corporate - Terms and Conditions
At any time, Sony Media Software may, in its sole discretion, make available to users certain software that may be either accessible or downloaded from this Site in addition to being made available through dealers, at retail outlets in various territories or otherwise.
Should Sony Media Software make available for access or download, a third party's software ("Third Party Software") through the Site, your access or download and use of such Third Party Software shall be subject to the terms of use set forth by such Third Party, and any applicable license agreement in connection with its Software.
Sony Media Software will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future Sony Media Software products or operations.
www.sonymediasoftware.com /corporate/terms.asp   (4077 words)

  
 There’s Nothing Mainstream About the Corporate Media - CommonDreams.org
Today’s mass media is Corporate, not Mainstream, and the distinction is critical.
Ditto for media: it is popularly thought of as a collective not a collection, and therefore “mainstream media” is a particular industry and deserves the singular.
If said media where to suggest that as the recent oil wars have proven so costly with so little benefit, that we might consider nationalizing the fuel and power industries here there would be a near lynching of the authors.
www.commondreams.org /archive/2008/02/10/6968   (9220 words)

  
 Corporate Media and Threat to Democracy
"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
They are chosen for their ability to play the game and not challenge the audience with too many controversial ideas or critical perspectives.
A kind of group think corporate consensus, steeped in market logic and deeply inbred by an un-brave news culture, breeds conscience-free conformity and self-censorship.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Corporate_Media/CorpMedia_ThreatDemocracy.html   (1664 words)

  
 media activist confronted corporate media : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A lone media activist courageously confronted throngs of corporate media encamped outside of Laci and Scott Peterson's home Wednesday in Modesto California.
throngs of corporate media encamped outside of Laci and
corporate media since December 24th when she was reported
sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/01/1568059.php   (544 words)

  
 Criminal Corporate Media
I offer to publicly debate, deconstruct and expose for who they are, any member of the corporate news media and their adjuncts on the talk radio circuit.
This challenge is extended to everyone in the mainstream corporate media, from the extreme right to the accused left.
The members of today’s news media warrant outrage from the people of the world who have fallen victim to their despicable practices.
tvnewslies.org /html/criminal_corporate_media.html   (1967 words)

  
 Be a Media Activist for Impeachment | AfterDowningStreet.org
These are two statements that are true, yet are rarely heard via the mainstream American media.
It is time for the media to discuss the real evidence that supports Impeachment and leave the opining to the citizens of this country.
Here's a summary of media coverage of the Downing Street Minutes during the first months of our campaign.
www.afterdowningstreet.org /media   (1319 words)

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