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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Verizon no longer owns either company listed under it. Sold huffpo in 2020 and yahoo in 2021. Idk about the rest of the list but it's a little out of date.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised YouTube and Google News are listed as news outlets. They don't create news content, they aggregate it. Arguments can be made about biasing which content is shown first, but not about the content itself, which is owned by the other entities on the list

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Except some content is produced independently (of those outlets) by "influencers", hence it makes sense to list them. Furthermore, I bet that for a huge proportion of the later generations these influencers are the main avenue to consuming News... specially if we added tiktoks, X, and all the crap.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The fact that there are 3 entities called Fox, and they're not all owned by the same company, is bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao including the nonprofit CPB on a media conglomerate lost alongside Comcast and Disney

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The CPB doesn't even own those entities, it only distributes money to them, money that only makes up a portion of their revenue. This is straight-up misinformation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here’s a more comprehensive look. Still, it omits that Amazon owns The Washington Post. As an atheist, I actually look to the Christian Science Monitor for uncompromising reporting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is very incomplete. National Amusements, News Corp., Disney, etc own a ton of other companies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

News corp owns National Geographic iirc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Disney owns the majority, but the board of directors is evenly split between Disney and National Geographic Society.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, get CPB outta here with all their astroturf for Big Classical Music and awful quiz shows

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Also known as Disney's shopping list.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Having had them as an ISP monopoly, Comcast shouldn’t be allowed to own Comcast until they show they can do that without fucking it up.

They actually made the monopoly part I experienced illegal. I was in a city with multiple providers but Comcast was the “exclusive” provider for my apartment building because they bribed our landlord so they could charge residents more for shittier service. Everyone involved in that deal should be in Gitmo getting kicked in the dick every time they ask for a lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Less interesting, and more terrifying.