#mediamonopoly — Public Fediverse posts
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," written by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, means that true social, political, and personal change cannot be passively consumed through media, television, or advertisements.
#Revolution #Television #MassMedia #NoBillionaires #Racism #Bigotry #BLM #EatTheRich #LIVESTREAMEVERYTHING #TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised #MediaMonopoly #MainstreamMedia #Resist #revolt
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," written by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, means that true social, political, and personal change cannot be passively consumed through media, television, or advertisements.
#Revolution #Television #MassMedia #NoBillionaires #Racism #Bigotry #BLM #EatTheRich #LIVESTREAMEVERYTHING #TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised #MediaMonopoly #MainstreamMedia #Resist #revolt
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," written by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, means that true social, political, and personal change cannot be passively consumed through media, television, or advertisements.
#Revolution #Television #MassMedia #NoBillionaires #Racism #Bigotry #BLM #EatTheRich #LIVESTREAMEVERYTHING #TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised #MediaMonopoly #MainstreamMedia #Resist #revolt
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," written by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, means that true social, political, and personal change cannot be passively consumed through media, television, or advertisements.
#Revolution #Television #MassMedia #NoBillionaires #Racism #Bigotry #BLM #EatTheRich #LIVESTREAMEVERYTHING #TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised #MediaMonopoly #MainstreamMedia #Resist #revolt
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," written by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, means that true social, political, and personal change cannot be passively consumed through media, television, or advertisements.
#Revolution #Television #MassMedia #NoBillionaires #Racism #Bigotry #BLM #EatTheRich #LIVESTREAMEVERYTHING #TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised #MediaMonopoly #MainstreamMedia #Resist #revolt
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French billionaire Bolloré sparks turmoil at Grasset as 115 authors leave publishing house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rGBPNtmetg #France #MediaMonopoly
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The Bloodbath at Washington Post Is All Jeff Bezos’s Fault https://theintercept.com/2026/02/07/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos/ #uspoli #media #JeffBezos #JeffBozo #WashingtonPost #Journalism #MediaMonopoly #journalism #ethics #bias #TaxTheRich
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Started thinking more about media concentration after #FediCollective Brew Build 2.
Someone raised the question: how do decentralized platforms respond when most of the global feed is shaped by a handful of corporations?
It’s not just about hosting your own server or using open protocols. It’s about rethinking how stories are made, shared, and sustained outside corporate ecosystems.
Are we building new media, or just federating the old one?
Would love to hear from folks working on federated zines, podcasts, video hubs, alt-distribution tools (anything that challenges the default).
Drop links, ideas, critiques. Let’s map the alternatives. Thanks!
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🧵 The Big 7 media giants shaping what most of the world watches, streams, and reads
1. Comcast: NBC, Universal, Sky, Peacock — cable, broadband, and Hollywood rolled into one
2. Disney: Marvel, Star Wars, ESPN, ABC — nostalgia and your kids’ favorite shows
3. Warner Bros.: Discovery, HBO, CNN, Max — drama, news, and nature docs
4. Paramount: CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon — big in broadcast and streaming
5. Sony: Movies, music, PlayStation — cross-cultural dominance
6. Netflix: Originals, algorithms, binge culture — the global studio in your pocket
7. Amazon: Prime Video, MGM, Twitch — retail entertainment meets surveillance capitalism
They own the pipelines and the stories.
What does #decentralization mean when 7 companies shape the global feed?
Can federated media offer real alternatives?
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Trump FCC announces push to end limitations on how many broadcast outlets can be owned by the same company. #MediaMonopoly https://www.newscaststudio.com/2025/06/19/fcc-deregulatory-broadcast-ownership-limits-tv/
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The Murdochs feud like petty royals, but their empire keeps poisoning democracy. Whether it’s Fox News radicalizing the US, Sky News fearmongering in the UK, or the Australian grinding axes here, their media machine exists to distort, divide, and entrench power.
And yet, as they bicker, the damage is done:#Murdoch #MediaMonopoly #DemocracyInDecline ##MurdochRoyalCommission
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-murdochs-are-feuding-but-their-empire-is-thriving-20250603-p5m4fo.html -
@Dianora You might find Hamilton Holt's Commercialism and Journalism of interest:
https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater
On the relationship between media monopoly, propaganda, censorship, surveillance, and manipulation:
Own work. I'd realised that manipulation (general and targeted) are another element in subsequent discussion. Tim Wu's The Master Switch, some of Bruce Schneier's work, and of course Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism echo similar themes, the latter was a strong influence. None fully develops the interconnectedness of all four aspects however.
#media #MediaMonopoly #surveillance #propaganda #censorship #manipulation
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It shouldn't be allowed anyway... Merger talks between Postmedia and Toronto Star owner fall apart: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/postmedia-nordstar-1.6902175 #independentmedia #MSM #cdnmedia #cdnpoli #cdnecon #mediamonopoly
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@Dianora There's been a lot said on education, and I don't think that well's spent yet.
There's also the distinction between liberal and servile education --- the classical Seven Liberal Arts of the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric --- or input, processing, and output as I like to consider them), and Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, or quantity, quantity in space, quantity in time, and quantity in space-time). C.P. Snow's "Two Cultures" is a more contemporary take on that, or present STEM/STEAM initiatives.
On propaganda, I twigged a few years ago that censorship, propaganda, surveillance, and targeted manipulation are all inherent elements of a media monopoly (both terms used in a broad sense), and emerge from them.
See: https://archive.is/8ceqI (Original site is now offline.)
I'd also long since recognised that privacy is an emergent concept as well, and a response to ever-more-intrusive communications, observation, and recording technologies. There's a reason why there was little discussion of the topic prior to Warren & Brandeis's treatment.
I'm something of a fan of articles from the cusp of the Internet age which discussed possible directions and implications, some prescient, some misguided. Jeffrey Rosen's The Unwanted Gaze (2000) still bears up as a good guide here, I think:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL506586W/The_unwanted_gaze
Any pointers to your work at Centre for Inquiry?
#propaganda #censorship #surveillance #TargetedManipulation #monopoly #MediaMonopoly #TheUnwantedGaze #JeffreyRosen #privacy #LiberalArts #Trivium #Quadrivium
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@Dianora The realisation hit me a couple of years ago that virtually all of the informational abuses we normally consider all stem from a common cause: media monopoly.
Censorship.
Propaganda.
Surveillance.
Targeted manipulation.https://archive.ph/https%3A%2F%2Fjoindiaspora.com%2Fposts%2F7bfcf170eefc013863fa002590d8e506
HN discussion at the time (most of it misses the point, of course, some salience however):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24771470More recently I've started encountering the term "Epistemic Rights", which seems to correspond fairly strongly.
#monopoly #censorship #propaganda #surveillance #manipulation #MediaMonopoly #InformationalAutonomy #EpistemicRights