It's in the name.

MSNBC. Microsoft (MS) Network Broadcasting Company.

CNN - "An AOL (internet service provider) Time Warner (Hollywood) Company.

FOX - Named after "Twenieth Century Fox" film company, owned by Rupert Murdoch, Australian billionaire.

Most of other channels owned by Viacom Incorp. (CBS,Dreamworks,Paramount,Walt Disney, MTV, Nickelodeon,VH1 etc)

2008 revenues: $183 billion
General Electric media-related holdings include television networks NBC and Telemundo, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, 26 television stations in the United States and cable networks MSNBC, Bravo and the Sci Fi Channel. GE also owns 80 percent of NBC Universal.

The Walt Disney Company owns the ABC Television Network, cable networks including ESPN, the Disney Channel, SOAPnet, A&E and Lifetime, 277 radio stations, music and book publishing companies, production companies Touchstone, Miramax and Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, the cellular service Disney Mobile, and theme parks around the world.

News Corporation’s media holdings include: the Fox Broadcasting Company, television and cable networks such as Fox, Fox Business Channel, National Geographic and FX, and print publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, TVGuide, the magazines Barron’s, SmartMoney and The Weekly Standard, book publisher HarperCollins, film production companies 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Studios, numerous Web sites including MarketWatch.com, and non-media holdings including the National Rugby League.

Time Warner is the largest media conglomerate in the world, with holdings including: CNN, the CW (a joint venture with CBS), HBO, Cinemax, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, America Online, MapQuest, Moviefone, Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock and New Line Cinema, and more than 150 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Marie Claire and People.

Viacom holdings include: MTV, Nickelodeon/Nick-at-Nite, VH1, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Atom Entertainment, and music game developer Harmonix. Viacom 18 is a joint venture with the Indian media company Global Broadcast news.
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Viacom owns 10 TV stations (primarily broadcasting MTV Tr3s).

Cable: MTV, MTV2, Nickelodeon/Nick-at-Nite, TV Land, VH1, Spike TV, CMT: Country Music Television, Comedy Central, Palladia, MTV U, LOGO, MTV World, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Comedy, BET, BET Jazz, BET Gospel, BET Hip Hop, Nick Jr., MTV Tr3s, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Pure Country.

International Channels: MTV Networks International operates in 160 countries. Viacom also owns Colors, The Music Factory, The Box, Game One, VIVA, QOOB, MTV Network Europe, Comedy Central Germany, MTV Base, MTV Arabia.

Production: BET Event Production, MTV Productions.

Programming: The Hills, Nick Gas, Turbo Nick, Nicktoons Network, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, MTV Jams, MTV World and TeeNick.
MTV Radio, BET Radio, Imagine Radio Limited
Music: The Extreme Music Library, Director's Cuts Production Music.

Magazines: Nickelodeon Magazine.
Paramount Pictures (includes Dreamworks, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Home Entertainment), Viacom 18 (50%) (India).
MTV.com, VH1.com, Spiketv.com, ComedyCentral.com, Nick.com, GT.TV, GameTrailers.com, Neopets Inc., MTVi Group, SonicNet.com, GoCityKids.com, MTV Overdrive, VH1 Vspot, BET.com, BET on Blast, Cmt.com, TurboNick, Quizilla, Nick Jr. Video, The Click, Nicktropolis, Addictinggames.com, Shockwave.com, ParentsConnect.com, Atomfilms.com, Rhapsody America (49%), Virtual Worlds (Nickropolis, vmtv.com), thedailyshow.com, colbertnation.com, southparkstudios.com (51%), spiketv.com, ifilm.com, jokes.com, Xfire (gaming).
MTV Mobile, BET Mobile, Harmonix, Y2M: Youth Media & Marketing, Rhapsody (part ownership).
CBS Corporation owns the CBS Television Network, CBS Television Distribution Group, the CW (a joint venture with Time Warner), Showtime, book publisher Simon & Schuster, 29 television stations, and CBS Radio, Inc, which has 140 stations. CBS is now the leading supplier of video to Google’s new Video Marketplace.

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How dumb has our gov. has made us. Its looking u in the face. The wall came down and know there here. Fight back u ding dongs

Sad, and infuriating, when people support censorship of the media.

This is the sort of thing our forefathers' bled to never see happen again.

It's the sort of thing i would bleed to never see happen as well...


"If i had to choose between a government without newspapers, and newspapers without a government, i would not hesitate to choose the latter."

-Thomas Jefferson.

What's the big deal?

Does Coca-cola advertise that the excessive sugar in their soft drink destroy your immune system.... Why does the the cable network have to categorize itself....

Does GM advertise that they cut pensions and "borrowed" money from tax payers, in order to build a substandard car...??????

"Caveat emptor"

blood of tyrrants and patriots

i don't watch fox news cause i'm a liberal..as for the USA being liberal that was a good one.most people were liberals when they were younger but as they got older and didnt want their kids to do the samethings they did like ,get knocked up at an early age or drink alcohol they became conservatives. anyway i could careless about fox news.

I used to feel the same way as you do until I started having debates with people and asked them where they got their skewed ideas.

It came from Fox. So I began to watch it to see what it was that was causing this misinformation.

Fox is not the only cause but being considered "mainstream" it gets more viewers than other right wing propaganda outlets.

I have no issue with them as long as they tell the truth about their "news". It is not fair and balanced.

Neither is anyone else. Their news programs are actually pretty accurate (there are always exceptions, of course) but to go and say that Fox is not news but MSNBC is is both naive and hypocritical.

The tea party protests continued last week, as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann held an anti-health-care-reform rally on the steps of the Capitol. While she estimated that 20,000-45,000 people attended the event, the Washington Post reported it was actually more like 10,000.

Still, that is a sizable number of Americans exercising their right to free speech and assembly, and that warrants news coverage. But Sean Hannity and his team did more than cover the event. They not only inflated the number in attendance with their words, but actually used footage from a heavily-attended protest this summer to make this health care rally appear more popular. Hannity even pointed out that this was a huge crowd for a Thursday, when the protest footage they used was from a Saturday.

Jon Stewart and his team caught this discrepancy and ran with it, pointing out neither the color of the leaves nor sky in the tacked-on video matched that of the actual footage. They went on to mock Fox by adding more video to the interview, this time from Woodstock and the movie "300."

see the vid and laugh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/jon-stewart-catches-sean_n_353447.html

I thought it was funny that they thought no one would notice them using footage from a couple months ago.

so awesome,and the fact that hannity admitted the error and said it was unintentional.....classic.
It is beyond me that people chose one media outlet for their information.I watch MSNBC and Fox and attempt to find the true reality in all of it.Everything is divide and conquer.

Fox News again accused of airing misleading video

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988

Yes they have the highest rating for the most viewed- so does desperate housewives, the hill, and other reality shows. As for World news reporting-bogus!

If they would present themselves as entertainment for the rightwing Americans with a slight tinge of news it would be more accurate.

if fox wants to know whats happening they can read a real newspaper .

Hey dog face I hope u like whats coming ur way I dont and wont stand by and let it happen if I dont have to

FOX News is a Republican misinformation medium.
I am glad someone finally had the guts to point it out.

Robert Murdoch has been battling anti-trust laws and law suits in Australia for years. The only reason he became a US Citizen was because no one that isn't an American is allowed to own an American TV network.

His dabbling in politics is legendary. He is a conservative.

I do that too, I happen to love BBC, news outside of the country about the country gives a more non partisan report most of the time,,not as much vested interests or sponsorship.

checking multiple sources is a great idea too. as well as waiting at least two to three weeks to start accepting reports as FACTUAL or not. It takes that long to start weeding out the sensationalism and opinions and claims and anonymous sources and get to some better researched and more factual information.

If this was true...

Fox would not be the most watched...

Get real.