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Natives Against Media StereotypesWho Owns
the Media
that Promotes Racist Stereotypes?



Boycott CBS to Stop Racist Stereotypes: Your Help Needed
Date: Thursday, September 30 @ 09:10:13 EDT
Topic: Media

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Why Does the Mainstream Media
Promote Racial Stereotypes?

Look at who owns the World's 10 Biggest Media Companies!

Do you realize that:
ONLY 10 Companies Control 90%
of the Information and Entertainment You Receive?

Time Warner
1999 projected sales: $25 billion
TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL donated $ 1.6 Million to George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.
Owns:

• Time, Inc., which publishes 24 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, and Life
• Warner Music Group, including Warner Brothers, Atlantic, Interscope and Elektra Records
• Warner Brothers studios owns part of the Warner Brothers Television Network. • Time Warner is the largest owner of cable systems in the U.S., as well as owning such cable channels as CNN, HBO and Cinemax

Walt Disney Company
Sales: $24 billion
DISNEY / ABC / CAP donated 640 thousand to George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.
Owns:

• Walt Disney, Miramax, Castle Rock, Touchstone, Hollywood, and Buena Vista Film Studio
• ABC TV and radio
• Disney theme parks, stores, sports teams, record labels and book publishing houses
• Part of Lifetime, A&E and History cable channels
• Has interests in European TV networks

Bertelsmann
Sales: $15 billion
Owns:

• Music companies RCA and Arista
• Publishing houses, including Bantam and Doubleday
• Extensive European TV and radio holdings



Viacom (THEY OWN CBS)
Sales: $13 billion
Owns:

• Paramount Pictures
• Blockbuster Video.
• MTV, Nickelodeon and other cable channels
• Infinity broadcasting
• Simon& Schuster
• Blockbuster
• Paramount Pictures • UPN TV network
• Publishing houses, including Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books

With such a diverse portfolio of properties, Viacom is one of the most profitable media giants as CBS is a top draw for older viewers while MTV remains the most popular teen orientated media outlet.

Who owns CBS? VIACOM.

"According to a report on Bill Moyer's show "NOW," the Senate blocked the FCC proposal last September. However, two months later, Senate Republicans and the White House reached agreement on a compromise that raised the limit to 39 percent. Just enough, as it turns out, to allow two particular media giants, Viacom and News Corp. (Fox), to keep all their stations. " Read more about it in thei Common Dreams piece.

Who owns CBS? Westinghouse.

What does Westinghouse own?

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.

News Corporation (Headed by Rupert Murdoch)
Sales: $10 billion
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch)
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).
*Phillip Morris donated # 2.9 Million to George W Bush in 2000*
Owns:

• 20th Century Fox.
• Fox broadcasting network, the Fox News cable channel
• 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard
• 132 newspapers including the New York Post and the London Times
. • HarperCollins books.

Sony
Sales: $9 billion (media only)
Owns:

• Sony Worldwide/SW Radio
• Sony Pictures
• Columbia Tri-Star Pictures and Columbia Records

Tele-Communications, Inc.
Sales: $7 billion
Owns:

• TCI cable systems
• Liberty Media and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
• Has interests in many cable channels including Discovery Channel, E!, Home
Shopping Network, QVC, Court TV and Black Entertainment TV

Universal (Seagram - Subsidiary of the Seagram beverage company)
Sales: $7 billion
Owns:

• Universal Pictures
• Universal Records
• Half-owner of USA Networks

PolyGram (Phillips - Parent company is a Dutch electronics firm)
Sales: $7 billion
Owns:

• PolyGram music and films

NBC (General Electric - Parent company produces consumer electronics, as well as being a major manufacturer of military hardware and nuclear power equipment GE donated $1.1 Million to George W. Bush for his 2000 election campaign
Sales: $5 billion
Owns:

• NBC TV network, CNBC, MSNBC, and is part-owner of the History Channel

SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/