Why the major media speaks in monotone

Common Dreams posts a handy guide from Peter Phillips on the incestuous relationship between corporate America and what we like to term the Main Stream Media. Phillips points out this is something of a misnomer, since the MSM is not really mainstream. We might call it the Major Mono Media for the amount of diversity in its ranks - which is none.

A research team at Sonoma State University has recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants.

...These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. In fact, eight out of ten big media giants share common memberships on boards of directors with each other.

Just one big happy family in the MMM today, looking out for each other's interests and that doesn't include us, the mainstream Americans. If you want to know why we don't get real news in the US anymore, the list Phillips provides is enlightening.

[via Buzz Flash]