television censorship

emeraldkity4
Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:39:27 +0000

I don’t think either General Electric or Westinghouse can be described as “progressive” or even “liberal”.



Let’s take a look at CBS. Well, CBS is owned by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a huge Fortune 500 corporation that is not your everyday, progressive, fighting-for-human-rights company. In fact, Westinghouse is one of the biggest investors in nuclear weapons and power. If you think the media are liberal, maybe you’re confusing Dan Rather (who is just an anchor) with the CEO of Westinghouse who really has the power…

Just as CBS is owned by Westinghouse, NBC is owned by General Electric (GE). I find it amusing that GE censored that idiotic movie on NBC Sunday night, “Atomic Train.” They changed references to nuclear waste to “hazardous waste” because they themselves are involved with nuclear waste.

That’s nothing new, though. The chairman of General Electric called the president of NBC News after the 1987 stock market crash and told him not to use words in their reporting that would adversely affect GE stock.

By comparison, ABC is owned by Disney … you could count the total minutes of air-time given to the ABC labor dispute on two hands. CNN is owned by Time Warner, and FOX News is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who doesn’t hide his right-wing views.

My favorite is MSNBC which is owned by Microsoft and General Electric. Will you please take a moment to think about this - do you honestly think that these are liberal companies?

We are constantly blasting other countries for feeding “propaganda” to the public, while the same thing happens in our own country. Do you ever wonder why you never see people on the news who are a threat to the system in any way? Or why certain stories aren’t covered?