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Media giants want to criminalize personal copying of movie DVDs to portable electronic devices Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That's the way Sony BMG treats customers, and if we leave intellectual property laws up to the media giants like Sony, we'll all be branded criminals sooner or later. So bottom line: Rip all the movies you want. Just make sure you own the DVD first, and don't share those movie rips with friends. But to protect your rights, fight against DRM (Digital Rights Management) schemes that force consumers to buy the same content over and over again for every new device or media format that comes along. Want to stay informed about the fight against DRM? See DefectiveByDesign.org.

Don't be fooled by "all natural" claims on foods and grocery products Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Cable news stations, magazines, newspapers and other media giants are all too happy to take money from junk food manufacturers and run their advertisements claiming their foods are "all natural." There is absolutely no effort to determine whether such claims are really true or even partially credible. Media companies simply take the money and run the promotions, regardless of whether such promotions tell the truth.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

The two media giants gathered several hundred experts to forge "solutions" to America's expanding waistline. Then U.S. secretary of health and human services Tommy Thompson delivered the keynote address in his customary cheerleading style. He praised all the major food companies for being "responsible" corporate citizens, singling out Coca-Cola for improving its school-based marketing policy. Then, during the question-and-answer session, an amazing thing happened.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Sloan-Kettering's board with the media giants. Another major component of the cancer drug industry is Sandoz Pharma Ltd., a huge pharmaceutical company, which recently signed a $100 million cancer drug development deal with Boston's Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Furthermore, a "revolving door" operates among the NCI, the major cancer centers, and the drug companies. For example, Stephen Carter, head of drug research and development at Bristol-Myers Squibb, is a former director of NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

While monopolistic power may dominate many other industries, Bagdikian points out, "Media giants have two enormous advantages: They control the public image of national leaders who, as a result, fear and favor the media magnates' political agenda; and they control the information and THIS M*»h!M W*IKL» .DISNEY'S RECENTLY ANNOUNCED INTENTION to PURCHASE ABC HAS BY NOW UNDOUBTEDLY INSPIRED INNUMERABLE VARIATIONS ON THE SAME CARTOON...*_ COMING UP NEXT--AN EXCLUSIVE. LOOK AT THE EX* CITING NEW LINE OF POCAhontas ACTioN figures! by TOM TOMORROW ..

In addition, the National Labor Relations Board, stacked with pro-management members, gave media giants permission to go on a ten-year union busting spree. And, like all big business, broadcasters and print publishers benefited from Reagan's shifting of corporate taxes onto the middle class and the poor. Meanwhile, top editors were made part of the business-management team, responsible for keeping up advertising lineage as well as overseeing editorial content. Many Time Inc.

It quoted media critic Ben Bagdikian warning the media giants have gone a long way to achieve their goal "to control the origination of content and the national delivery system." Nicholas Johnson, professor of communications law at the University of Iowa, charged, "We used to have businesses, however awful and crooked and greedy, run by people who understood that business, whether making shoes or making newspapers. Now it seems everything is run by a bunch of 14-year-old financiers driven by the bottom line. When it happens in the media, it means democracy fails.

World Without Cancer G. Edward Griffin See book keywords and concepts

Let us emphasize that CFR members do not merely work for these media giants as subversive agents hiding within the working staffs, they control them at the top. They are the owners and the key executives who determine content and editorial policy. It is through these channels of communication and entertainment that members of the CFR have been able to manipulate America's perception of reality.

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