Jon Stewart on Crossfire

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What platform did I lose? I was pointing out that the broadcast media (and cable) has been granted access to public property. The airwaves, and the cable infrastructure, belongs to the people or was able to be put into place because of public granted access.

You seem naive about the broadcast medium. CNN? Well, they were part of the Turner Corp. Turner owns a hugh chunk of AOL/TIME/Warner. Time Warner owns cable companies, studios, Viacom, networks, production facilities, etc. (and a nice chunck of ATT telephone, etc.) Just like Disney owns ABC which owns ESPN and also owns other movie studios and cable channels, etc.

Kind of like the old Standard Oil Monopoly. This huge media companies are intertwined and own the studios making the product, own the networks distributing the product, and own the cable companies that deliver the product to you home. They also own other media outlets to let you know what you should think about their product.

By the way, Colin Powell's son is the head of the FCC, the govt. agency that is supposed to oversee these matters for the public interest. At the same time, Colin has become a multimillionaire on AOL/TimeWarner stock.