Seminar - Online Media Activism

MEDIA REFORM

Mass Media - newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies.

5 huge corporations own and operate a majority of America's mass media-- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) and General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.

MEDIA REFORM INFORMATION CENTER

FREE PRESS






INDEPENDENT MEDIA

For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information.

But the last two decades have seen unprecedented corporate media consolidation. The U.S. media was already fairly homogenous in the early 80s: some fifty media conglomerates dominated all media outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, music, publishing and film. In the year 2000, just six corporations dominated the U.S. media.

In addition, corporate media outlets in the U.S. are legally responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits.

And U.S. “public” media outlets accept funding from major corporations, as well as from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Every Corporation for Public Broadcasting board member is appointed by the White House and confirmed by the Senate.








POLITICAL ACTIVISM

Petition Online





CONSPIRACY RESEARCH & INVESTIGATION

9/11 Mysteries - Full Length Documentary