What it is is that what media does is shape the kind of issues that we think about. They determine what is important and what is not important. And what we have right now are Six major media conglomerates control about 90% of what the American people see, hear and read. Got it? 6. It is not an accident. Trust me. It is not an accident that Elon Musk owns Twitter, that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post and Twitch, that Mark Zuckerberg owns Meta, which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, messenger and throw Threads. (20:32–20:45)
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Asserts that six media companies control 90% of U.S. media consumption.
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