As I usually write about how the networks we watch on TV and how they choose what is "news" to us, I realized that when it comes down to it we as viewers have put that power into their hands.  As they get their ratings from what we watch, we give them money to continue funding for owning broadcasting networks.

I bet if I asked you to list some television "news" channels I would only hear about four or five answers- ABC, FOX, NBC, CNN... that's pretty much all I can think of. And that is pretty much all that is able to get their name out there at this point.  .  These news networks don't just get to where they are.  Over several years they have been this way.  So I decided to look up "Media Corporations" on Google, and one of the first search results was a 1997 article on what corporations own the media (we actually read about this a couple of chapters ago in English).  Sadly, it is the same fifteen years ago as it is today- there are about five companies that alone own the media.  Time Warner, Disney, Bertelsmann, Viacom, and  Rupert Murdoch's Business Corporation were the top five media corporations.

Then I looked at the current media corporations (2012) and saw that not much has changed- in the article I read it says that 6 corporations own the same amount that 50 corporations owned in 1983 (90% of the media). That is scary! That means that there are fewer executives of fewer corporations have say in what we view.

Although these companies are not necessarily to blame for what we see, they are a large part of why what we see is so limited and there isn't a lot of variety. Just a thought, and it is definitely appropriate when it comes to how I process what we take in via the media.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1406

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6