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Bernie Sanders: “Six large international conglomerates, media conglomerates…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Published | Video Starts at 12:57

That's right, yeah. And everything's getting consolidated. It's becoming smaller and smaller. It's fewer and fewer people. You got it? Yeah. All right, so what my understanding is you have Six large international conglomerates, media conglomerates, that control about 90% of what the American people see here and read. All right, so look, take a look. Talk about oligarchy. Mr. Musk, is that all he does is make electric vehicles? Not quite. He owns Twitter, right? Yeah. (12:57–13:11)

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Asserts that six large media conglomerates control about 90% of the media consumed by Americans.

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