The Lying Media

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The lying media

Most media outlets are owned by a handful of corporations
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled most of the American media, including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio and television. By 1992 that number had dropped by half. By 2000, six corporations had ownership of most media, and today five dominate the industry: Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch’s News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany and Viacom.

In Canada, more than 80 per cent of Canadian media is owned by a cartel of just five corporations: Bell Media, Rogers Media, Postmedia, Corus, and Torstar, each of which own dozens of different print publications and television networks under various subsidiaries and affiliates.

Protest at Bell Media Headquarters, NNN on location

The Canadian Media Concentration Research [link]
In 2018, the Canadian federal government unveiled a $595-million package over five years to help Canada’s media sector [link], including measures to facilitate fundraising by non-profit news organizations and tax breaks to fund the production of original content. The government picked which media companies ended up getting bailed out. Because of this, the major media outlets became state media...

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