Does the media really give Democrats a fair platform?

[DMorgan]

Who are the people in charge of the media?

Owners of newspapers, management for all the netowrks?

Are ANY of them earning less than a teacher's or police/fire person's salary?

Do they have a built in bias NOT to allow their business be taxed more, NOT to be giving up hours of potential revenue for the good of America?

When did NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, or even BBC America EVER give up more than 6 revenue hours a year for anything approaching public service broadcasting ?

How many millions or billions of dollars does each network harvest each year from their sponsors? How many millions in revenue do each of the networks give up each and every year for public service and public informational programming? Do they have to report this publicly?

And the salaries issues, how many major network executives earn over $500,000 a year in salaries, perks, and bonuses? What if they had to pay more in taxes? Don't you think they would avoid covering those types of issues?

Any information about that? NO! I tend to think that's NOT public information. But we only have the media source dominated by THESE types, let's fire them all, and give them a chance to earn a fireman's salary, if they think they are so special. I digress...but you get the picture... the media is NOT the friend of common wage-earners. The media likes those tax breaks and loopholes. Forget honesty and integrity in the media.

[Taverner]

1. Nope

Next question?

[DMorgan]

7. Why do people listen to them? nt

[Taverner]

9. Because, for most people, that's all there really is

During the 80's and 90's, media corporations were eaten up so that at the end, there were only three. The corporations that bought them didn't buy them because they believed in freedom of the press, if you know what I mean.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. there are ONLY five major corpoirations that OWN ALL the media

Two of them are Disney and General Electric

DIsney is ABC for the teevee crap

General Electric is NBC for the teevee

But only FIVE corpos own the media

[snot]

3. i hope there no longer remains any doubt, at least on DU

95% or more of the media have been owned by Repubs for decades. moreover, the * administration spends unprecedents wads of our tax dollars paying media outlets to propagandize us.

the real situation became obvious to me when supposedly liberal Ted Koppel was pounding Pres. Carter nitely for weeks over the Iranian hostage situation, when there was nothing Carter did to create that or could have done to end it.

[Cleita]

4. Never in the corporate media.

They can get a fair shake on the fringe like Democracy Now or Keith Olberman's Countdown program.

[annabanana]

5. Welcome to DU!

I think you will find the answers to ALL your questions here. Our media is owned by a very very few corporations

(a great resource page: http://www.cjr.org/resources/ )

NONE of them have spent a nickle in the public's interest since Saint Ronnie Reagan shut down the Fairness Doctrine as soon as he hit the White House.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. No. When media consolodation started in the '80s,

every small town editor eventually got squeezed out--and we lost a lot of independent power and a lot of quirky, lovely, local papers.

[The Gunslinger]

8. No

[BulletproofLandshark]

10. If Democrats were given a fair and equal platform

the GOP could no longer exist. Replacing gotcha politics and sensationalism with fairness and the issues at hand would be more than the status quo could bear.