How can someone control the past and the future?
By controlling what in the present we learn from the past and also from the present in order to avoid the same mistakes in the future.
And who controls what we learn from the past and from the present? We have Education Systems, and the Media especially Mass Media.
But like we live around 70 years, and we spend in school an average of 9 to 12 years, we will let Education Systems on the side now, and we will focus on the Media.
Media we can consider television, newspapers, magazines, books, radio, Internet, video games etc.
But like the most of the people don’t read books and Internet is also something that not everyone has access; we will focus our attention in newspapers, magazines and television.
How truly, impartial and independent is the Information we receive thru this sources of information?
When the greatest income for newspapers and magazines comes not from sales to the public, but from advertisement we can seriously question what interests will they serve first. link
We have the example back in 1996, when FOX Television after announced that was gone put on air a TV show about the potential dangerous of Bovine Growth Hormone to Human health, have received a letter from Monsanto, that is the producer of the Hormone in question, threatened FOX Television of severe consequences for the Network in case of the emission of the show. (Monsanto is a big advertiser in FOX Network) Then FOX tried an agreement with the reporters that had written the report for the show, in order to these ones change the content of the report. They had refuse, and the story went on, and on, until they have got out of FOX, sued the channel and won the case in court. link
Another case of influential power inside the Media this time not by Companies, but by Political Power, is the one of the documentary: “Conspiracy of Silence” a documentary about Pedofilie envolving high polititians and other figures from Washigton DC that was even listed for viewing at Discovery Channel in the TV Magazines, but at last moment was take it out of the programs line for the day. link (A link to this documentary in the documentaries section of this blog)
Another factor is the one that even knowing that we never had so many television channels, newspapers, magazines so on so on; also never before these where owned by so few Companies/Persons.
In States there are basically 5 Companies that own the most of not just the most viewed T.V. channels but also the top Hollywood studio producers, Websites, Radio Stations, Magazines and Newspapers. These Companies are: Time Warner Inc., Walt Disney Company, Viacom Inc., News Corporation and CBS Corporation. link
In the case of the News Corporation they also have business in Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, China, Thailand, Philippines and Georgia.
Taking a look at Europe we have that Rothschild Family owns Reuter News Agency since the 1800’s (there is even a commemorative statue in the city of London with the inscription that the Rothschild’s had bought it, so on, so on), and Reuters had bought Associated Press some years ago, so making them have the control over 2 out of 3 of the biggest news agencies in the world.
And according to the research made by Eustice Mullins and showed in his book 'Who Owns the TV Networks' the Rothschild’s have also control over the biggest Networks in States.
In England we have 2 of the most readied newspapers “The Guardian” and “The Observer” being owned by the same Company. link
Other big English newspaper is the “Independent” this newspaper is property of Independent News Media a Company based at Dublin, Ireland that owns not only the “Independent” but more than other 200 printed title, 130 radio stations and more than 100 websites in 22 different countries such as New Zealand, South Africa and India. link
In Portugal we have Media Capital, a Company that owns the most viewed television channel, 6 radio stations owns also an audiovisual producer Company with offices in States and South America, a movie rights distributor for theatres and Video/DVD, a record label and the second largest Internet portal in Portugal and several websites including Facebook Portugal and MySpace Portugal. link
Other Portuguese Company is Impresa that owns a T.V. channel, one of the most readied newspapers, several magazines, comic books and other publications and websites. link
In Italy the Company Mediaset has the control over 4 T.V. channels and 1 newspaper. This Company belongs to a larger holding property of Silvio Berlusconi that includes also Medusa that is a big Company in the cinema sector and Mondadori that is a publishing house that owns several publications. On this case an even higher conflict of interests is raised because Silvio Berlusconi is the Prime Minister of Italy. link
The countries and companies mentioned above are just some random examples, just to try to show that maybe is better don’t be so safe about the independence and impartiality of the information disseminated by the Mass Media and don’t accepted as truth for sure. Instead, analyze it, search other sources of information and compare ideas and opinions with other persons.
And become the Media yourself but a good informative one that spread's Truth and Love among the others.
Text by: Specter
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