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Global-Corporate Media Giants

• General Information

  • Media Criticism
  • Media Manipulation - GlobalIssues
  • War, Propaganda and the Media - Global Issues
  • Why International News has Disappeared
  • The Global Media Giants - the nine firms that dominate the world
  • Fairness Accuracy In Reporting: The National Media Watch Group
  • Fairness Accuracy In Reporting: Media Activism Resources
  • Mainstream Media - Excellent Links
  • Everyone's Rich In Media-Land...But You?
  • Independent Media - Speaking Truth to Power
  • Media and Democracy - Is Media a Danger to Democracy?
  • Corporate Media and Threat to Democracy
  • The Military-Editorial Complex
  • What's Wrong with the News?
  • MediaCulture: The Guards Are Sleeping - AlterNet 5/05
  • Murdoch's Plans - a blueprint for world conquest
  • I Suspect A Dumbing Of The Masses
  • European Media Landscape (by country)
  • The control of pleasure - United States goes global
  • Up in Flames: The Public Revolt Against Monopoly Media
  • The Media Bias Debate: Commercial Media Are Not Liberal, They Are Commercial
  • Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Resigns - "Profits: that's what it's all about now" - Laura Garrett 3/05
  • Legitimate Targets? - How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
  • Kosovars Vs. Kurds: Similar Crises Get Divergent Treatment in the New York Times
  • Sleepless In Stockholm : Dissecting the Media in Sweden
  • Vision - Consultancy Group
  • CNN’s "Tailwind" and Selective Media Retractions
  • The Mousetrap, Inside Disney's dream machine - New Internationalist
  • Free Press : media reform through outreach, activism, lobbying and networking
  • Price of the "Liberal Media" Myth
  • TvNewsLIES
  • Disney

• Who Owns the Media ?

  • Major Media Control
  • The Global Media Giants
  • The Media Monopoly (a book)
  • Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
  • Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership - GlobalIssues
  • Corporate Influence in the Media - GlobalIssues
  • Media and Advertising - GlobalIssues
  • Large, Corporate-Owned Media are "Free" Trade Proponents - GlobalIssues
  • Some Examples of Corporate Influence on the Media - GlobalIssues
  • Michael Parenti: Monopoly Media Manipulation
  • The Forbes 200 list: billions for the privileged few
  • Oligopoly - the big media game has fewer and fewer players !
  • The Movie Industry
  • Who Owns What ?!
  • Disney: The Facts - New Internationalist
  • Public TV More Corporate, Less Public than Ever !
  • The Cost of Survival: Political Discourse and the "New PBS"
  • CIA Agents Infest U.S. Mass Media (News they never told you - News they'll never tell you)
  • Corporate Ownership
  • American Review
  • Corporate Welfare !
  • Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons
  • Fair Action Alert : Viacom - CBS Merger
  • Media Monopoly: Long History, Short Memories
  • Criteria for press freedom: 20 questions
  • Digital TV and the Public Interest: The Project on Media Ownership (USA)
  • Top 10 Censored Stories of 1996
  • Government, Business, and Public Policy
  • "We Paid $3 Billion For These Stations. We'll Decide What the News Is."
  • Dung on all their Houses - The un-brave new world of media conformity 12/99
  • Get the Real Story from the Left Side of the Web!
  • Disinformation
  • How to Build a Global Media Empire
  • The Global Media : The Missionaries of Global Capitalism
  • Conglomerates and the Media (a book)
  • Wizards of Media Oz : Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
  • Media Moguls on Board
  • Corporate Ownership
  • Media Linguicide Class Wars
  • Internews - Supporting Open Media Worldwide
  • Media and Behavior
  • U.S. Government Lies ?
  • John Swinton on the independence of the press
  • Yes, He Said It, But...
  • Media regularly deceives the public
  • NAPFN Articles on the Media Swinton
  • The Media and its Lies

• Corporate Propaganda

  • Corporate Influence in the Media - GlobalIssues
  • Norbert's Bookmarks on Corporate Greenwashing
  • Propaganda ! - New Internationalist
  • Corporate Propaganda: The Facts ! - New Internationalist
  • Propaganda: Mindgames ! - New Internationalist
  • The Propaganda Industry ! - New Internationalist
  • Media as mirror to the world - New Censorship: Subtle Manipulation
  • Peddling Miracles and Amnesia (PR on Chile) - New Internationalist
  • Propaganda: The junkyard dogs of science - New Internationalist
  • Propaganda: Lies and the laptop bombardiers ! (Kosovo) - New Internationalist
  • Propaganda: Best coverage money can buy ! - New Internationalist
  • ACSH and mainstream media: misrepresent studies and reassures falsehoods
  • How the Far Right Built a Media Empire to Manufacture Consent - Democracy Now! 11/04
  • WANTED: 250,000 Americans to Fight Fake News & Government Propaganda - Center for Media and Democracy
  • Corporate Ownership
  • Paper Tiger TV

• Media Conglomerates & Consolidation

  • Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership ! - GlobalIssues
  • "My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner !
  • Minorities and the Media: Little Ownership and Even Less Control
  • Media Ownership - Does It Matter? *.pdf
  • Diller calls for regulation to control media conglomerates
  • Media Tank
  • Take Action! Tell FCC: Stop Corporate Grab of the Media
  • Stop Corporate Control of the Media
  • Beware media conglomerates
  • Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
  • Center for Digital Democracy | Media Consolidation
  • Guide to FCC Rules on Media Ownership - Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
  • Media Diversification: Is Bigger Better After All?
  • Journalism And Power: Why Ownership Matters?
  • MediaChannel.org - A Global Network of More Than 1,000 Media Issues Groups
  • Free Press : media reform through outreach, activism, lobbying and networking
  • Reclaim the Media!
  • Big three will run world's media, says Murdoch 2/04
  • Captive Audience: A few big media firms dominate 4 of 5 FCC commissioners' hometowns
  • Fight to Block FCC Media Ownership Rules Goes to Court - Democracy Now!
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  • Biography of FCC Chairman Michael Powell
  • FCC media rules change may be real obscenity
  • Media Mergers !

• Whitewashing

  • Whitewashing the Bush Boys
  • Whitewashing the Past (Senator Trent Lott)
  • Whitewashing CIA Mind Control Atrocities
  • Three questions about the CIA crack attack!
  • Manipulation of the Media (USA)
  • Cocaine Importing Agency - The U.S. Government Is the Biggest Drug Dealer in the World!
  • Bushology Interactive: The Bush Dynasty
  • Bush Senior: Hating Saddam, Selling Him Weapons
  • Whitewashing the Web (China)
  • How Journalists and Reporters Cover Israel
  • Media bias whitewashes Israeli terrorism
  • The Media's Propaganda War? (Jerusalem Post)
  • Still at it: Whitewashing Barak!
  • U.S. Media Bias
  • Blood of innocent Palestinians and Israelis on Ariel Sharon's hands
  • The New York Times Bias
  • Ariel Sharon: War Criminal
  • Palestine Media Watch
  • Palestine Media Watch - The New York Times
  • Whitewashing of the Palestinian Leadership ?
  • Whitewashing Hezbollah
  • Whitewashing Suharto

• Censorship

  • Top Ten Censored Stories of 2003-2004 - AlterNet 9/04
  • Top Ten Media Failings in 2004 - Media Matters
  • The Top 25 Censored Stories - BuzzFlash
  • Censored Top 10 - San Francisco Bay Guardian
  • Project Censored - Tracking the News that Didn't Make the News
  • Project Censored - Resources