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Non-Sectarian Bastard!
17th January 2003, 16:17
Today I saw an interresting documentary about the US media.

One guy told that the biggest media cooperations in the US are run by big company's, these company's have a large amount of all media in their hands. He said that about 50% of all US is run by 6 company's.

That means that these 6 company's can tell the US citizens whatever they want and fear no competetion from other company's.

Because they are company's with interrests in other branches than media only, they don't report on cases that can hurt those interrests.

Those interrests concern, a lot of bussinescompany's. Who's image to wards the audiance musn't be hurt, to avoid looses.

And ofcourse there is the government, first of all to be president or any other important political function, you need a lot of money(par example: for campaign). This way, you exclude the lower and middle class, at once.

Wich only leaves the elite, left as only candidat for presidency. All those elites, have become rich through the bussiness world and will ofcourse not disadvantage the bussiness world if they get chosen for president.

And there is big chance that a throw for president, will fail. And something, that you don't want, is too loose your fortune because of a failed attempt for president. So you need supportives, like Enron did for Bush. And those company's ask favors back, for their fundings.

Also war is a way to distract the mass's attention fromt the real problems to a war. People won't be thinking of Enron and won't critizise it, afraid of the social control and to be blaimed of non patriotism.
This way big company's rule and own America, and soon the world, if we don't act.

Can someone give me some clarification?

(Edited by CCCP at 4:22 pm on Jan. 17, 2003)

Saint-Just
17th January 2003, 17:16
The purpose of the U.S. government and the U.S. foreign policy is to uphold and defend capitalism. The U.S. government rules the U.S. with its primary interest to defend its corporations. Its corporations run the media and everything else, i.e. culture, production, distribution and so on and so forth. It may be said that the U.S. government is responsible for this, however, I would say the corporations and market forces run it all with the interests of the government not to run society but to defend this system in which a particular class controls society.

In communism we seek a system in which the state controls the means of production, distribution and exchange. And that it defends the entire peoples and their participation in this system.

All you say is abolutely correct in my opinion. U.S. media is run by those whose interests is not the dissemination of truth but the growth and protection of their capital. The election is as Lenin said a chance for the oppressed to choose from s selection of oppressors who will oppress them for the next 4/5 years.

TXsocialist
17th January 2003, 19:00
Yea, there is no Government or capitalists...

The purpose of modern bourgeois government, as the name implies, is to protect property from the masses...

Valkyrie
17th January 2003, 19:37
The Carlyle group has it's hands in both big money making ventures.. (Military Industrial complexes among others) and the government. George W. Bush Sr. is one of the partners as well as other government and big business swindlers. (Frank Carlucci, former sec. defense of Reagan administration) etc.

There's no distinction anymore between the capitalist conglomerates and government succession.
http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html

http://www.hoovers.com/premium/profile/6/0...7,42166,00.html (http://www.hoovers.com/premium/profile/6/0,2147,42166,00.html)

http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.11F.Arm...rms.Carlyle.htm (http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.11F.Arms.Carlyle.htm)

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/...ladensbail.html (http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_26_01_binladensbail.html)

(Edited by Paris at 7:52 pm on Jan. 17, 2003)


(Edited by Paris at 7:55 pm on Jan. 17, 2003)

Valkyrie
17th January 2003, 19:43
As to the mainstream media, --- I truly don't think they know what's really going on.. but only what they are being told.. and that not being what goes on behind the deep recesses of government's locked doors.

It's the strategic stuff not being heard about that's really happening.

Larissa
17th January 2003, 22:01
IMO, "Who rules the US?" : large capital corporations + the CIA + a wacko alien who would do anything to get Iraq's oil.

Non-Sectarian Bastard!
17th January 2003, 22:06
I really want to know how big is the media and big company's influence in the US?

Valkyrie
17th January 2003, 22:10
Big Business is everything and the media is their whore.

I don't have statistics however..

But check out http://www.corpwatch.org

(Edited by Paris at 10:11 pm on Jan. 17, 2003)