‘BOONDOCKS’ CREATOR: 10 PEOPLE CONTROL U.S. MEDIA

More and more people are waking up and asking important questions about where they are getting their news and information. There is awareness of the biased perspectives that are marketed as politically neutral within mainstream US media. Even when media outlets do admit to certain ideological leanings such as the openly right-wing Fox News Channel owned by the larger Fox corporation, the political scale within US corporate media remains incredibly skewed. On the extreme right we have Fox News, but then liberal or centrist (if not right-leaning) outlets such as MSNBC (owned Comcast) by or CNN (owned by AT&T) are as far left as mainstream US media gets, meaning not to the left at all. This is because US corporate media is extremely concentrated in the hands of very few mega conglomerates owned by a tiny handful of billionaire CEOs.

In this video political cartoonist and creator of the TV series ‘The Boondocks,’ Aaron McGruder talks about the concentration of media into 10 hands and the censorship and distraction that comes along with that. Today the majority of US media is dominated by just five corporations: Paramount Global (formally Viacom and CBS), Comcast, AT&T, The Walt Disney Company (which also owns ABC and ESPN), and the Fox Corporation. That means that many of the other popular media channels are owned and controlled by these larger conglomerates.

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Video Credit: @cspan (http://C-Span.org)