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John Edwards about to be indicted.

This is a discussion on John Edwards about to be indicted. within the The Political and Social Snake Pit forums, part of the Current Happenings category; Really ... name the liberals. BTW CNN is not liberal ..... So ya think we have a "free press" eh? ...

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    Really ... name the liberals. BTW CNN is not liberal .....

    So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......
    GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

    Television Holdings:
    * NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
    * NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
    * CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
    The "MS" in MSNBC
    means microsoft
    The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

    Other Holdings:
    * GE Consumer Electronics.
    * GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
    * GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
    * GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.
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    WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
    Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
    whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:
    Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

    Television Holdings:
    * CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
    * CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
    * Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
    * Group W Satellite Communications.
    Other Holdings:
    * Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry.
    * Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US.
    * Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.
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    VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Television Holdings:
    * Paramount Television, Spelling Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, UPN (joint owner), Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel (joint owner), Flix.
    * 20 major market US stations.
    Media Holdings:
    * Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks.
    * Simon & Schuster Publishing.
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    DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)
    Television Holdings:
    * ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
    * ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
    * ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
    * Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
    Media Holdings:
    * Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
    * Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
    * 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
    * Hyperion book publishers.
    * Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
    Other Holdings:
    * Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
    * All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
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    TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW's 2000 campaign)
    America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner–the largest merger in corporate history.
    Television Holdings:
    * CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%).
    * Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.
    Media Holdings:
    * HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
    * Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
    * 33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.
    Other Holdings:
    * Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.
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    NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
    Television Holdings:
    * Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
    * Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
    * The Golf Channel (33%).
    MEDIA HOLDINGS:
    * Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.
    * 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
    * 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
    * HarperCollins books.
    OTHER HOLDINGS:
    * Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League.
    * Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
    * Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

    *(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*

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    Yeah, that really works...... Corporations don't give a shit about left or right unless it affects their ad revenues.


    With that being the case, I'm curious about why no one has tried to copy Fox. With Katie Couric exiting stage right, CBS might decide to push more towards the center, or even to the right in hopes of picking up a piece of the Fox Horde. It'll be interesting to watch. It can't hurt, what are they going to do, push more to the left and pick off ten's of MSNBC viewers?

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    Let me see here ... FOX is a copy of Rupert's SKY network ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moab View Post
    Let me see here ... FOX is a copy of Rupert's SKY network ...
    Yes, and?

    It kills all of it's competitors in the ratings, it caters to a certain audience, and it's entertaining.

    If you're a liberal, you see it as biased, lying, bullshit.

    If you're conservative you enjoy it because you don't have to watch the demonization of your personal values. The lame stream media doesn't understand this. Fox news does. If I tune in to MSNBC and constantly hear that I'm a baby killing asshole because I want to see a cut in means based entitlements, i'd have to be a masochist to keep watching.

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    Then do like me and don't watch TV ... I haven't for over 30 years.

    But this I will say ...in defense of the popular media they like to error in the center of issues. FOX is what you say ... but listening to outright lies I don't get that one bit.

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    Then do like me and don't watch TV ... I haven't for over 30 years.

    But this I will say ...in defense of the popular media they like to error in the center of issues. FOX is what you say ... but listening to outright lies I don't get that one bit.
    I don't watch tv(apart from sport) the companies were too biased. They bent the facts(not outright lies but overempathised certain facts). Do they still distort the truth? I don't know because I'm not qualified to judge.

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    I guess today is his day to be charged with a felony.....been negotiating for a misdemeanor with no luck....lol


    I guess its not OK to funnel money from your Presidential election fund, for hiding your mistress and baby, while lying about it the whole time.

    Seems like that would fall under image promotion......

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    I just hope all that "good stuff" was worth it, sure screwed his life up,

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