This report was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse
How much is your view of the world shaped by what you see on television? On average, Americans spend more than 150 hours watching television every month, and it is called “programming” for a reason. If you allow anyone to pour ideas and information into your mind for five hours a day, it is going to change how you look at reality. Everyone has an agenda, and every single news program, television show and movie is trying to alter your views. Sadly, our society has become absolutely addicted to media, and the mainstream media is completely dominated by the elite. In fact, about 90 percent of the programming that comes through your television is controlled by just 6 gigantic media corporations. Most of us are willingly plugging ourselves into this “propaganda matrix” that is completely dominated by the elite for several hours each day, and that gives them an enormous amount of power over the rest of us.
In Part I and Part II of this series, I discussed how the elite use money as a tool to dominate the planet. Today, we are going to talk about how they use information. If you control what people think, then you control a society. And through their vast media empires, the elite are able to shape how we all think to a frightening degree.
Just think about it. What do we talk about with our family, our friends and our co-workers? To a large extent, those conversations are about movies, television shows, something that we just saw on the news or a sporting event that just took place. The reason why we talk about certain things is because the mainstream media gives those things attention, and other things we ignore because the mainstream media does not make them seem to be important.
The mainstream media literally sets the agenda for our society, and it would be difficult to overstate the power that is in their hands. And as I mentioned above, the mainstream media is almost entirely controlled by just 6 colossal corporations. The following list of these 6 corporate giants comes from one of my previous articles, and this is just a sampling of the media properties that they each own…
Comcast
NBC
Telemundo
Universal Pictures
Focus Features
USA Network
Bravo
CNBC
The Weather Channel
MSNBC
Syfy
NBCSN
Golf Channel
Esquire Network
E!
Cloo
Chiller
Universal HD
Comcast SportsNet
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Studio Home Video
The Walt Disney Company
ABC Television Network
ESPN
The Disney Channel
A&E
Lifetime
Marvel Entertainment
Lucasfilm
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Disney Mobile
Disney Consumer Products
Interactive Media
Disney Theme Parks
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
News Corporation
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox News Channel
Fox Business Network
Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 2
National Geographic
Nat Geo Wild
FX
FXX
FX Movie Channel
Fox Sports Networks
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Post
Barron’s
SmartMoney
HarperCollins
20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Blue Sky Studios
Beliefnet
Zondervan
Time Warner
CNN
The CW
HBO
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
HLN
NBA TV
TBS
TNT
TruTV
Turner Classic Movies
Warner Bros.
Castle Rock
DC Comics
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
New Line Cinema
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine
Viacom
MTV
Nickelodeon
VH1
BET
Comedy Central
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Country Music Television (CMT)
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
CBS Corporation
CBS Television Network
The CW (along with Time Warner)
CBS Sports Network
Showtime
TVGN
CBS Radio, Inc.
CBS Television Studios
Simon & Schuster
Infinity Broadcasting
Westwood One Radio Network
If nobody tuned in to their “programming”, they would not have any power over us.
But according to a report put out by Nielsen, Americans are plugging into “the matrix” more than ever before. The following is how our daily use of media breaks down by device…
Live TV: 4 hours, 31 minutes
Time-Shifted TV: 33 minutes
Radio: 1 hour, 52 minutes
DVDs: 8 minutes
Video Game Consoles: 14 minutes
Multimedia Devices (Apple TV, Roku, etc.): 13 minutes
Internet on PC: 58 minutes
Smartphone: 1 hour, 39 minutes
Tablet: 31 minutes
When you total those numbers up, it comes to 10 hours and 39 minutes.
In essence, Americans are spending most of their waking hours plugged in to something.
And if you only add together “live television” and “time-shifted television”, Americans are spending an average of more than five hours each day just watching television.
Of course many of us spend countless hours on the Internet as well. It has been estimated that 54,907 Google searches are conducted, 7,252 tweets are posted, 125,406 YouTube videos are viewed, and 2,501,018 emails are sent out every single second.
You may have guessed this already, but most of the news and information that we consume on the Internet is also controlled by the elite…
Overall, the top 10 publishers — together owning around 60 news sites — account for 47% of total online traffic to news content last year, with the next-biggest 140 publishers accounting for most of the other half, SimilarWeb found.
The biggest online news publisher for the U.S. audience was MSN, owner of MSN.com, with just over 27 billion combined page views across mobile and desktop, followed by Disney Media Networks, owner of ESPN and ABC News, with 25.9 billion.
This is why the “alternative media” is so important. All over America and all over the world, people are waking up and realizing that they aren’t getting the truth from the mainstream media, and they are hungry for truly independent sources of information.
The only way that we are ever going to be able to throw off the insidious system of control that the elite have established is by winning the information war. We are literally in a constant battle for hearts and minds, and the good news is that we have made a lot of progress. Over the past decade we have “red pilled” millions upon millions of people, but we still have a long way to go.
Faith in the corporate media is dwindling, and the elite are deeply concerned about this. The Internet has allowed ordinary people like us to communicate on a mass scale, and this has never been the case before in human history. We have a window of opportunity to fight back against the elite, and we must not let this opportunity pass us by.
We are literally engaged in a battle for the future of this planet, and let us never waver in our pursuit of victory.
Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years.Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and The American Dream.
If you want to know what is coming and what you can do to prepare, read his latest book [amazon text=Get Prepared Now!: Why A Great Crisis Is Coming & How You Can Survive It&asin=150522599X].
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Bill Clinton, signer of NAFTA, China Free Trade, the evisceration of Glass Steagall also contributed his signature to the Communications Act Of 1996. This act facilitated the de-facto monopolization of the media.
The most ignorant people on the earth are democrats because they literally worship a man that has facilitated the destruction of the US middle class for the benefit of the .01%.
Snyder, another good article. The only thing he didn’t mention is that all 6 megacorporations are owned and controlled by a certain tribe who is out to destroy the world.
Yup! The Herzig boys.
Interesting how MAC wont include that little tidbit, aint it?
The only television we get is via satellite.
There are no locally available channels.
My Internet is satellite only.
I’m very, very rural.
I don’t watch any of the listed channels
with the exception of the occasional TCM movie.
One thing that I hate is virtually every commercial
with a white woman in it has a black man accompanying
her, or it is a woman with kids and no husband in sight.
This can be found on all channels.
I refuse to buy the products they are promoting.
I have repeated asked if we could drop most the channels
the article lists and thus save money, but
the satellite provider refuses.
I watch maybe 12 channels out of 190 or so.
It is pretty obvious what the
Democrat/Globalist agenda is.
Kill off the white and east
Asian races.
“Democrat/Globalist agenda ”
That agenda that Bill Clinton made law was supported primary by republicans. Some democrats were bribed by Clinton for their vote because of their one time traditional support for labor. Democrats went The republicans were philosophically supportive of it with exception of real conservatives like Ron Paul.
Try Roku. Get what you want..not what they offer.
Hey JayJay,
My Satellite is data metered. The only unlimited
data is from 0200 to 0800 hrs.
Rarely, we get speeds up to 17 mbs, most run
6-8 mbs so most streaming video “stutters”.
I have to download video to a MP4 file and then view it.
Most services don’t allow that, because they think
I’m stealing their property.
I’m fortunate to have such things available.
I live on one of the most remote islands
on the face of the earth.
I own hundreds of books just in case all this
technology goes away.
I have watched a few things over the years, which were clever or had high production values, but which disagreed with my worldview. I found it risqué, but still entertaining.
Even a commercial can be thought provoking, though rarely.
Almost all of it, now, is sloppy filler material. This is degrading.
My approach to entertainment, food, clothes, etc, is to favor quality over quantity. I would pay, out of my discretionary income, to be treated like a mental adult, without anything shrill or demeaning, not one iota.
The next thing they will do is remove RT and Sputnik from the air waves. They are manufacturing support for it right now with their fake Russian interference stories.
Can’t have the public exposed to an alternate worldview. Eddie Bernays would be proud.
The commercials are heavier than ever on police state tv. Every news program a police blotter repitition, all female news dispensers are butch deep voiced wannabe males. The death reports are the highlights “breaking news”. Even that Dr. G smiling while doing autopsies is creepy. And the sitcoms, what’s with the canned laughter? We have to be told what’s funny and when to laugh. Nobody would laugh without the prompt? So the cable stations get the ad money and the viewers paying to watch money. My neighbor has a small roof antenna for just local stations, that’s what I need but those antennas have disappeared from all the stores I have checked.
Really? Took my 4 secs
https://www.walmart.com/browse/electronics/tv-antennas/3944_1060825_133270_4536
And what ((( group ))) owns 90% of Hollywood, 90% of the media , And 90% of our banks , and who know what else? Rev. 2:9 3:9 John 8:44?
Elite? They are just people who inherited a lot of money?