{"id":78,"date":"2012-05-09T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/05\/say-hello-to-the-6-media-outlets-who-control-nearly-everything-you-watch-and-read\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:47:00","slug":"say-hello-to-the-6-media-outlets-who-control-nearly-everything-you-watch-and-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/05\/say-hello-to-the-6-media-outlets-who-control-nearly-everything-you-watch-and-read.html","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello to the 6 Media Outlets who control nearly everything you watch and read&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Yesterday we explored the <a href=\"http:\/\/timsuttle.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/say-hello-to-10-companies-who-make-most.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">10 companies that make most of the products we use on a daily basis<\/a>. Today I want to show a snapshot of how the media companies have been changing over the past few decades, using this interesting infographic. \u00a0Some interesting facts from the Graphic are:\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1983, 90% of American Media was owned by 50 different companies<\/div>\n<div>Today, 90% of American Media is owned by 6 companies<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>GE, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS, and News Corp control one out of every five hours of television. NewCorp \u2013 owned by Rupert Murdock, controls the most popular newspaper on 3 continents: North America, Europe, and Australia.\n<p>These corporations are now people. These 6 people control 90% of American media \u2013 thank you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Citizen\u2019s United v. 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Today I want to show a snapshot of how the media companies have been changing over the past few decades, using this interesting infographic. \u00a0Some interesting facts from the Graphic are: In 1983, 90% of American Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Say Hello to the 6 Media Outlets who control nearly everything you watch and read...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday we explored the 10 companies that make most of the products we use on a daily basis. 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