WHO OWNS THE MASS MEDIA?
It is important to know the mass media owners and their conglomerates for several reasons, but most importantly to determine bias. Wealthy tycoons tend to use their news outlets as sources of advertisement for their product lines. They also tend to manipulate news information to benefit their political agenda, and avoid stories damaging to the industrial status quo. Mass media owners such as Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner are known to be very politically motivated, as well as sharp businessmen. Their personal political aspirations and beliefs can be interpreted by observing the disposition of their news broadcasts. Watch closely and their political agenda can be determined, and any bias more closely scrutinized. When taking into consideration the political agenda or bias of the mass media owners, one can safeguard themselves from misinformation and the deliberate misrepresentations in the news.
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- WHO OWNS THE MASS MEDIA?
