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With a supporting cast of well-known literary names around him, Newhouse is the king of New York’s cultural world today—as owner of Random House, the nation’s largest book publishing empire; publisher of such influential magazines as "The New Yorker," "Vanity Fair," "Vogue," and "Wired;" and by controlling dozens of other newspapers, magazines, and cable television franchises in the United States and around the world.
With a supporting cast of well-known literary names around him, Newhouse is the king of New York’s cultural world today—as owner of Random House, the nation’s largest book publishing empire; publisher of such influential magazines as "The New Yorker," "Vanity Fair," "Vogue," and "Wired;" and by controlling dozens of other newspapers, magazines, and cable television franchises in the United States and around the world.
One can follow the conglomerate back to the same place. Go see who owns these shares of "institutionally" owned corps. Tied in with the NEP, as well. Who Owns the Media? | Free Press
Ben Swann discussed how news people are trained in broadcasting and not investigative journalism.
Well, I have to say that I watch cable news. But not for information but for entertainment. I think it's funny watching people throwing mud at each other. It's not news, though.
"Fortunately, my other early education was conducted in a local pool room. People who were a lot smarter than I was taught me how to recognize a hustler."
My wife was astonished to hear the ravings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright... on Fox News, a month before the 2008 election, on one of the rare times she noticed it, watching over my shoulder. Then she was even more astonished to think back and realized that the "news" stations she had been watching - ABC and CBS, with a little CNN - had NEVER shown any of it, even though the then-candidate for President had been sitting in that church and soaking it in for TWENTY YEARS.
It turned her against Barack Obama once and for all.... and against the mainstream media.
How many other MSM watchers would have been similarly affected, if they'd known?
I found Americans do not quite trust the media with respect to domestic issues. However when it is about international issues, they suddenly accept all the propaganda, especially when the reports are about countries they don't like or are told not to like.
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