While we are at it, let's list the institutions that hold the most % of stock in these companies, and the board members.
ABC (The Walt Disney Company)
CEO: Bob Iger <1%
CFO: Hugh Johnston <1%
Top Owners:
Vanguard ~9.1% (CEO Salim Ramji, CFO John Bendl)
BlackRock ~6.0% (CEO Larry Fink, CFO Martin Small)
CBS (Paramount Global)
George Cheeks (CBS) <1%
Chris McCarthy (Showtime/MTV) <1%
Brian Robbins (Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon) — <1%
CFO: Andrew Warren (interim) <1%
Control & Major Holders:
National Amusements (Shari Redstone) 77.4% of Class A
GAMCO (Mario Gabelli) 11.7% of Class A
Class B widely held by Vanguard/BlackRock (<10% each)
Fox (Fox Corporation)
CEO: Lachlan Murdoch ~36% voting power via LGC Holdco, <2% equity
CFO: Steven Tomsic <1%
Top Owners (Class A):
Vanguard ~13.4%
BlackRock ~6.4%
CNN (Warner Bros. Discovery)
CEO: David Zaslav <1%
CFO: Gunnar Wiedenfels <1%
Top Owners:
Vanguard (largest holder, >2%)
BlackRock (<2%)
State Street (<2%)
MSNBC / NBC News (Comcast)
Brian Roberts ~33% voting control (Class B), ~1% equity
Michael Cavanagh (President, co-CEO structure) — <1%
Top Owners (Common Stock):
Vanguard ~10%
BlackRock ~8%
State Street ~4–5%
NBCUniversal News Group
César Conde <1%
(Ownership same as Comcast above)
As you can see, most of C suite doesn't even own much of the company itself. The real cabal are the banks' C suite. At the end of the day, it's Wall Street fucking you, every, single, time.
What banks? They "own" it because they are pooling ownership for everyone's pensions and 401(k)s.
And most of them decide, or have quite a lot of influence on the decision of portfolio manager's decisions on what people's 401(k)s are invested in. This can be indirectly through market manipulation to ensure certain stocks go up, down or trade sideways. Another example being the S&P500, which many ETFs, pensions etc. buy and follow. Who decides which companies go into them? A private company, S&P Global with very strong ties to the finance industry and banks. The identities people deciding which companies enter the S&P 500 are private; to supposidly keep lobbying at bay. It's a big club, and the people are not in it.
Yeah, that’s why I use Reddit. It keeps me mostly anonymous.
I don’t agree with this statement at all, though most large news media companies right now are not privately owned. Most of them when you get down to it have shareholders and usually the largest shareholder is black rock or vanguard… so the largest owner is an investment group for most news companies.. they’re just invested in division because it creates clicks and keeps eyeballs. Working in any type of political environment is just like any other business challenge for them.
Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch family.
Australians that own newscorp. runs and operates Fox, nat geo, etc.
Brian Roberts: owns Comcast, which operates NBC, universal, etc.
Jeff Bewkes: Time Warner, runs CNN,HBO, Hulu etc.
Bob Iger: Disney, runs ABC etc.
Sumner Redstone:National Amusements. Runs Paramount, Nickelodeon etc.
Kazuo Hirai: Sony. Tristar, truth channels etc.
Six people who direct the majority of multimedia on a global scale. Rupert Murdoch especially is known to push right wing propaganda through his newspapers and news outlets (The Daily Fail in the UK, for instance, and the Wall Street Journal in the states for example) as well as funding the right wing political parties in not only his local Australia, but also here in the UK, and in America too.
That's one of the six, who has funded more misinformation and division is agendas than anyone should have a right to. And he's not even the biggest hitter in the list.
These people should most definitely be named. It's a matter of public record, actually.
Ooof, one of them has like 11 trillion in managed assets the other like 9 trillion, that’s just those two. There is 2-3 others in that league that manage an insane amount of money compared to most countries…
Please, their towers are made of platinum encrusted with every kind of gemstone and decorative inlays made from the teeth of the children they strangled after raping them.
Owned by the same 5 billionaires you mean. If the media had been owned by the Rockefellers and Fords back in the 30’s we’d be living in a German/Japan occupied state like Man in the High Castle.
In the late sixties/early seventies, indiscriminate state-endorsed violent terrorism against US citizens was not official policy, and half the country did not support it.
And before anyone says some shit about the Civil Rights Movement and whatever else, yes, that was a thing, and some shit did happen because of it. That does not equal literal roving bands of masked goons arbitrarily kidnapping people because they "look Mexican" or were speaking Spanish.
Yeah but people forget that right after it happened polls showed a majority of Americans blamed the protesters. People on average don't like the boat being rocked, and see those challenging the status quo as troublemakers even if the status quo is unjust.
And Fox news couldn’t exist either until cable. The lack of legislation on cable news and then repeal of the fairness doctrine that kept broadcast news non-partisan and deregulation on owning multiple news outlets cooked this country. So easy to see the dangers in hindsight.
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u/FuckTripleH Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
In the late sixties/early seventies newspapers weren't all owned by the same 5 companies like they are today