We do not need a nation of thinkers. We need a nation of workers.
John D. Rockefeller, 1903
America’s first billionaire, son of a con artist
Held monopoly over oil in the U.S.
Established false premise of Empirical Medicine in the U.S.
Supported Darwin theory capitalism
The media is too concentrated. Too few people own too much. There’s really 5 companies that control 90% of what we read, see and hear. It’s’ not healthy.
Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III, Founder of TV 6, Russia
Media Mogul and Founder of CNN (Cable News Network)
Founder and Chairman of the United Nations
Owner of most of the land in America up until 2011
If you believe CNN or Fox are your most trusted sources of news I invite you to consider an alternative universe. All the actors you see in their segments answer to either Rupert Murdock from Australia or Ted Turner from Ohio, who pay for their lifestyle off camera.
According to Biography.com when his father died and Rupert took over the publication he,
“quickly converted the news into a chronicle of crime, sex and scandal”
He might have been following the lead of his American predecessor.
In short, the time was right to aim our newspaper at an audience of better-educated men and women with greater purchasing power and to bring our readers and advertisers together in a fast-growing marketplace on a scale much larger… to make it the most profitable in the world… concerned with every aspect of life… diversion… we express our own views… at times incorrect… depth of analysis not possible in the presentation of breaking news… stirring spoons in the great melting pot… homogenizing… educating… acculturating… to paraphrase A. J. Liebling, “freedom of the press belongs to those who own one”… led the reader to one specific conclusion without a balance… such a big voice… rhythms of change were established by the four family publishers, the present publisher, and their personalities…
Front Page, a collection of historical
headlines from the Los Angeles Times 1881-1987
Otis Chandler, Digby Diehl, et al
The history books are lying and you need to know that… The minute I started breaking the all-time record in record sales… I broke Elvis’s records. I broke Beetle’s records. The minutes mine became the all-time best-selling album in the Guinness Book of World Records, overnight they called me a freak! They called me a homosexual! They called me a child molester! They said I tried to bleach my skin! They did everything to turn the public against me! This was all a piece of hate conspiracy. You have to know that! I know my race. I look in the mirror. I know I’m Black!… This has got to stop! That’s why I’m here with the best to make sure it stops…
Michael Jackson, Choreographer, Singer, Songwriter
Shareholder of the majority stocks in Sony Records
Presentation on the importance of Black History
Video Created by Hugh Gaddy, BlackInTime.info
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
Fred Rogers, American Preschool TV Show Host
Composer, Educator, Puppeteer, Songwriter,
Author, Activist and Presbyterian Minister
The one who kept hope alive in this columnist as a child
I’m Adelaide. Thanks for reading.
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