Who owns the major news media and controls Congress?

[Bill]

Local News and Information Suffers Under Consolidation

The consolidation of local media damages communities and citizens. In many areas there are fewer and fewer locally owned radio stations, television stations or newspapers. Corporate owners often cut costs by centralizing operations elsewhere. Instead of covering local news stories, they send communities pre-packaged programs from a main office that could be hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away.

This information is important because judges, scholars and advocates have been telling us, for some time, that truth is only found when we get information from a wide variety of sources, expressing different, often times conflicting, viewpoints. That means that when the FCC chooses to allow a small number of media giants to own multiple broadcast TV stations in local communities, it puts the accuracy and quality of our news at risk. And when the FCC chooses to relax cross-ownership rules (allowing a single owner to own the dominant TV station and newspaper in a given market) it placed our local news at even greater risk.

Media Control in the Hands of a Few
Most of America's news, information and entertainment is now controlled by a handful of large conglomerates. The number of corporations that control a majority of U.S. media – and this includes newspapers, magazines, t.v. and radio stations, books, music, movies, videos, wire service and photo agencies – is now only five. These companies have virtually eliminated real t.v. and radio news. They have dumbed down our entertainment to the lowest common denominator, and they have stifled creativity. They have massively disinvested in our country's newspapers. And, they have put a chill on coverage of anything that's not in their business interest.

Newspapers Lose Their Independence

In newspapers today, fewer than 20% of America's newspapers remain independent — only about 250 of us. Absentee conglomerate owners now control most of the metropolitan newspapers in the United States. The large chains control 70% of our nation's daily circulation and 73% of our Sunday circulation. FCC proposals to allow cross ownership of television and newspapers in the same market would most certainly worsen an already alarming increase in corporate ownership of newspapers.

Radio Consolidation

Certainly, what has happened to radio since deregulation of ownership occurred is very alarming. Clear Channel – the giant Texas-based entertainment company – now controls radio stations listened to by one-third of Americans – a radio audience of more than 100 million people! Once an important source of local news coverage, radio has all but discontinued any coverage of local communities.

Television Consolidation

Television concentration continues to grow and local ownership continues to disappear. We've moved past the era when stations were buying additional stations. We are now in the era where larger chains are now gobbling up smaller chains. Incredible as it seems, the rules set by the Federal Communications Commission actually allow one entity to control up to 39% of America's television sets. A perfect example of the problems caused by such consolidated control was brought to the forefront in the Sinclair Broadcasting flap involving the pro-Bush, anti-Kerry program just before the presidential election. Unfortunately, much of the controversy focused on the conservative political bent of Sinclair. Sinclair's politics were not the important public policy issue — the issue is excessive control. Sinclair controls 61 television stations reaching 25% of America's viewers. That's too much control for any one entity, irrespective of their political or economic motives.

There are many reasons why it is important to have diverse ownership of local media, but consider just a few examples. Assume that one company is allowed to own the dominant newspaper and one or two of the main television stations in your town. What if the company decides it wants to save money and combine newsrooms? Maybe the owner is friends with the mayor. What if there is corruption at city hall? Who would be left to investigate it?

Remember back in May when media gushed and fawned over a
huge crowd in Portland, Oregon -- supposedly gathered to
hear the words of Democrat presidential candidate Barack
Obama -- but chose not to report the free concert given
before his speech?

Before the presumptive
Democrat nominee spoke to a crowd in Berlin , two
popular German acts -- reggae artist Patrice and rock band
Reamonn -- entertained the gathering audience.

This pattern continued all during the election. Free rock concerts then obama speech. Major news media did not report the prop of free rock concerts.

The Media is controlled by big corporations. America has seen an obama that is packaged and not real. America has also not heard or seen the truth about who obama really is and his citizenship. Mass media controls what America sees and hears. Even congress is convinced obama is a citizen because out of 535 people in congress not one objected to obama as a natural born citizen or citizen of the US. Who owns the mass media? Who controls the mass media? Who controls congress? The mass media does if Americans believe the mass media lies about obama and congress. I believe the mass media is controlled by international bankers..ie the FED reserve. The few who dig for the truth see that obama is a fraud but the majority of Americans don't know the truth about obama and the majority of Americans is what Congress listens to. The US Supreme Court is our only hope as far as government is concerned. A ruling against obama to produce his COB or prove he is a US citizen or natural born citizen can happen if the US Supreme Court is not bought off like Congress is. The US Supreme Court should at the minimum hear a case about obama's citizenship at the least. I see no reason why this is to much of a task for them to do. If they don't, they to are controlled by the FED and only a revolution of Americans revolting will ever expose the fraud of obama and congress not upholding the US Constitution. Also who are the lobbists that control congress?

Why will Congress not listen and object to Obama's citizenship?
I didn't get a letter answering my letters to my rep or senator.
They ignored me.
I believe they ignored many others but not the majority.
Who or what could put such pressure on Congress to agree to elect a fraud to office?

What are we fighting against?

[wakeupamerica]

I GOT MAYBE ONE OR TWO EMAILS REPLIES BACK AND ONE ACTUAL LETTER THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH ALL DECEIVED AND WIMPED OUT REPLIES BACK TO ME

[wakeupamerica]

I ALSO HOPE YOU ARE RIGHT HOPEFULLY THERE ARE ENOUGH OF US PRAYING AND FIGHTING AND LET US PRAY THAT ALL THE TRUTH WILL BE MADE KNOWN
THAT THE LORD WILL REVEAL ALL
THAT THE EC AND THE SCOTUS WILL NOT WIMP OUT GET SCARED OR PAID OFF

FAST AND PRAY PRAY AND FIGHT
THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST

[wakeupamerica]

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