Here’s a blog from a family who are trying to spend one year of their lives without any influence from Disney. They’ve decided to take anything produced by a Disney-owned company out of their home, avoid watching any media produced by Disney-owned companies, and spend no money on anything made by a Disney-owned company.
You might not think that’s too difficult, but here’s the list of the television networks, cable networks, radio and television stations, movie studios, online services, periodicals, and other related businesses directly owned by Disney. It’s not completely impossible to stay away from all these entities, but it’s going to be a challenge.
This PDF shows how virtually every media outlet in the United States is controlled by one of five corporations: Disney, Viacom, Bertelsmann, TimeWarner, News Corporation, and Vivendi. Because the landscape changes so frequently, the information is now a little out of date (for example, Vivendi sold off Universal to GE, which packaged it along with NBC and sold NBC Universal to Comcast), but it still paints a disturbing picture.
Living without a TV makes it a lot easier, of course. And living without a TV, why does that sound so hard to so many people?
This concentration of media ownership is scary, for sure.
We are at war with Eurasia. We have ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia….