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William Farrar's avatar

The American media has never been left leaning. The American media is corporate and corporations exist for one purpose to provide a positive rate of return for shareholders.

See Ford v Dodge, Michican , 1919

I've done what many are too lazy to do, and that is take a deep dive into who owns who in all of the media, cable, broadcast and print. Major print media is owned by families or people. Electronic media is owned by corporations which are owned by corporations and if you google "who are the individual investors in say Comcast, you get Brian L. Roberts, he is also the CEO and Chairman of the board, same with other corporations. Robert Iger, Disney, Newhouse Family, Redstone Family, and there are institutional investors the major ones are Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street Group, Bank of America and others are also shareholders'

Biggest are Vanguard and Blackrock was founded and primarily owned and operated by Larry Fink He has his wikipedia page as do the others.

Blackrock also owns or contracts out to manage hospitals, petro chemical companies, defense companies like Raytheon, insurance companies, in fact you could say that Vanguard, Black Rock and State Street and other private equity funds own U.S.A. Inc.

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TCinLA's avatar

Excellent analysis. I'm glad I've subscribed.

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Steward Beckham's avatar

Thank you!

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