This is who owns all of the media and including Hillary Clinton...

[Playinghardball]

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Shaking my head in utter disbelief, except denial doesn't fix anything. Sherman Anti-trust Act! Now!

[gregcrawford]

2. And passage of the TPP will make these megalomaniacal monsters virtually unassailable...

... and they have barely begun to trample our rights.

[Roland99]

3. GE divested itself of NBCUniversal nearly five years ago. Comcast owns it now.

[INdemo]

4. GE is still a Major shareholder

[Roland99]

7. hmmmmm

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324880504578300432831438770

By MARTIN PEERS, JOHN JANNARONE and KATE LINEBAUGH
Updated Feb. 13, 2013 10:39 a.m. ET
Comcast Corp., in a bullish bet on traditional entertainment, is buying General Electric Co.'s 49% stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion, giving the cable operator full ownership of the film and television giant much sooner than expected.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Conan exposed that too....

[Fritz Walter]

6. Quick update

NewsCorpse just bought out the National Geographic Society and then promptly laid off all the talented writers and editors. OK, they have controlled the National Geographic Channel for some time now, but the magazine was the flagship of that brand and it is now under the control of Murdoch's pirates in shark-infested waters.

[appalachiablue]

9. That's a nightmare, what Murdoch's NewsCorpse has done to the National Geographic

Society staff and HQ. I love that building with exhibits and programs in downtown DC for ages.
The Koch Bros. also have their hands in many aspects of American life and culture including funding PBS programs like 'NOVA' on science, and major American science museums even while denying CLIMATE CHANGE. See post #8 if you like. Scary stuff, Oligarchic power.

[appalachiablue]

8. US Media has consolidated into 6 major conglomerates, from the approx. 50 owners in 1983.

The KOCH BROTHERS are the 5th and 6th richest people in the world. Along with the energy industry they are aggressively involved in funding POLITICIANS and dozens of advocacy THINK TANKS like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council that works to implement extreme rightwing libertarian economic policies on the national, state and local level.

The Kochs are also in the business of EDUCATION, funding 300 American colleges and universities, mainly the economics and business departments and selecting some professors and curriculum. The Kochs also give money for business programs and student grants at US High Schools. As well they fund PBS programs like 'NOVA' on science, and major American science museums although they deny CLIMATE CHANGE.

[cascadiance]

10. And will our bought congress stop these companies from selling off properties to foreign companies?

CBS sold off its record company to Japanese company Sony Corporation in 1988.

A big part of Newscorp has been owned by a Saudi prince too.

If that happens more, and it seems like we have less control over this, then will we be spoon fed news that is more in the interest of other countries for us to have filtered for their sake than ours?