Time to repost this infographic on the 6 companies controlling 90% of the media

[TalkingDog]

And remind everyone to consider the source and what it's investment might be in your perceptions.

[peacebird]

1. Easier to control the peasants if you control the media

[rock]

2. "Easier", certainly

I would even say impossible if you don't.

[Hortensis]

8. Yes, it is. But since you used that disgusting term,

let's remind ourselves, if there be peasants, they be us.

But we are not peasants, whose duty is to serve. We are citizens whose duty is to decide, albeit often inadequate, and frequently downright bad, citizens.

Peasants is a word for those who believe, as those who lost out at the time of the establishment of our nation did, in a populace strongly divided by class. They lost then, big! When their counterparts today win ANYTHING at our expense, it is because we failed to guard our rights and our nation.

[peacebird]

11. Yes, Agree w you. I chose the word because I believe that is how the 1% see us. Not how I see us!

[Gregorian]

3. Imagine this forum with six people.

The more people in this forum, I think the more closely we define the truth.

[hifiguy]

4. Thanks, TalkingDog.

This cannot be re-posted often enough.

[monicaangela]

5. A veritable monopoly over the media

In a "free country" no less. We need to take our country back alright, but not from those who use this phrase seem to think has taken it. We need to take our country back from the Oligarchs that have swarmed in like the carpet baggers after the civil war and removed legislation that would allow them to monopolize the media and more. When will the people of the U.S. Wake Up? When will the people of the world wake up, how long will we allow our resources to be usurped by a handful of people?

[Hortensis]

9. Yes, and most are basically run by one man.

Oh, there are usually others involved, some belong to families, have boards, etc., but four or more are effectively owned and controlled by one person who has first and final say in what we will be told, if anything, and what slant it will be given.

Those people we see on TV and whose names are at the tops of columns are all employees, and most of the recognizable names like their jobs way, way too much for our good and know how to safeguard them.

[monicaangela]

10. Exactly Hortensis

and I believe this is sad commentary regarding a democracy that touts itself as an example for the rest of the world.

[floriduck]

6. Thanks to Bill Clinton's 1996 Telecommunications Act.

[monicaangela]

13. Those Pesky Clintons Again

If we continue to turn the country over to them we may as well just do this and forget about it. They IMHO are toxic.

[jwirr]

7. What else besides the media and the banks are this consolidated?

[olddots]

12. things get too big to not fail

Parasitic capitalism is no better than tyrannical communism .