To control the world one must control the mass mind.
The madman run the mass media.
NEWS CORPORATION / FOX NETWORKS GENERAL ELECTRIC 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%). 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.
WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC. 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.
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.
DISNEY / ABC / CAP 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.
TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL 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.
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) 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).
DISNEY/CAP CITIES (Ranked No. 48 in Forbes 500) ABC: Television stations covering 24.5% of US households; ABC Radio (owns 21 stations, largest radio
network in US; 24% od US households).ABC Network News: Good Morning America, Prime Time Live, World News Tonight, 20/20, Nightline, World News with
Peter Jennings TV and Cable: Disney Channel, Disney Television (58 hours/week syndicated programming); Touchstone Television (Ellen, Home
Improvement), A&E (37% with Hearst and GE), LIfetime Network (50%), ESPN (80%), ESPN 2 (80%), Buena Vista Television. Magazines: Chilton Publishers
(trade publications), Fairchild Publications (W.Wear Daily), L.A. Magazine, Institutional Investor, Disney Publishing Inc. Motion Pictures: Walt
Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Film Corp., Buena Vista Pictures (distribution). Book Publishing: Hyperion Books,
Chilton Publications Retail: 429 Disney Stores Music: Hollywood Records, Wonderland Music, Walt Disney Records Multimedia: Disney Interactive,
Disney.com, Americast, ABC online Sports Teams: Mighty Ducks, California Angels Theme Parks/resorts: Disneyland, Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland
Paris (39%), Tokyo Disneyland, Disney Vacation Club, WCO Vacationland Resorts, Disney Institute, Disney Cruiseline Newspapers: Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Daily Record, Narragansett Times, Oakland Press & Reminder (Pontiac, MI), County Press (Lapeer, MI),
Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), Belleville News-Democrat (IL), Albany Democrat (OR), Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR), Sutton Industries and Penny Power
(shoppers) Major investors include Sid Bass et al (oil and gas production), Berkshire Hathaway/Warren Buffet, and State Farm Insurance.
General Electric Media: NBC, CNBC, MSNBC (50% with Microsoft), Court TV, Bravo, A&E, The History Channel (with ABC and Hearst) NBC Network News: The
Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC Nightly News/Tom Brokaw, Nightside
Transportation: GE Transportation Systems (diesel and electric trains) Turbines for nuclear reactors and electric power plants: GE Power Generation
Electrical Equipment: Electrical Distribution and Control
Communications: GE Americom (satellites), GE Capital Communications Services (long distance telephone) Motors and Controls: GE Motors and Industrial
Systems Insurance: GNA Corporation & other insurance firms Aircraft engines: GE Aircraft Engines Lighting: GE Lighting Appliances: GE Appliances (GE,
Hotpoint, and others) Medical Services:
GE Medical Systems (MRIs, X-rays) Networking Software: GE Information Services Financial: GE Capital (private label and bank credit card loans,
mortgages & other loans; asset management)
Westinghouse Media: CBS: 14 US TV Stations CBS Network News: CBS Morning News, 60 Minutes, CBS This Morning, 48 Hours, Face the Nation, Up to the
Minute, CBS Evening News/Dan Rather CBS Radio: 21 FM stations, 18 AM stations; 1,900 stations carry some CBS programming; about 450 carry CBS News.
Cable: CMT, Country Music Television (33% owners with Gaylord Entertainment); Home Team Sports,
TNN The Nashville Network Nuclear power plant design and manufacture: Energy Systems (40% of the world's nuclear plants use Westinghouse
engineering). Waste disposal (including hazardous and radioactive:Resource Energy Systems; Scientific Ecology Group; Westinghouse Remeiation Services;
GESCO (this branch of the company also operates 4 government owned nuclear facilties, including Savannah River; installed reactors in Sea Wolf, the
Navy' new nuclear submarines; and refueled the U.S.S. Enterprise, the first nuclear aircraft carrier. It also recently won a contract to dispose of
2,253 tons of stockpiled chemical weapons at an Army base in Anniston, Alabama.) Group W Satellite Communications (satellite istribution of TV
programming) Parts for electric power plants: Power Generation Communications and Information: Telephone, network and wireless communications systems;
security systems. Westinghouse Pension Management WPIC Corporation (insurance, communications, financing.) Brandywine Asset Management (investment
advisors)
(Extract from an article on rense.com)
[Edited on 26-8-2003 by thepresidentsbrain]