Media-magnates and their Empires

Main means of influence

• emphasized and played down items

• the reporter's choice of words, tone of

voice, and facial expressions

• the wording of headlines

• the choice of illustrations

TIME WARNER

Time Warner + America On Line

revenue of $39.5 billion

Main shareholder - Ted Turner

The Walt Disney Company

Revenues of $27.1 billion

Michael Eisner

The Walt Disney Empire + The ABC Inc.

ViacomRevenue of just over $26.5 billion

Headed by Sumner Redstone

Founded in 1971

The world's largest provider of cable programming

NBC UNIVERSALEdgar Bronfman, Jr.

NBC + Vivendi +Universal Studious + Interscope Records

Bronfman became the biggest man in the record business in May 1998

News CorporationOwner – notorious Rupert

Murdoch

The fifth largest megamedia corporation in the nation

Revenues of approximately $19.2 billion

The Associated PressThe Associated Press + The Newhouses

Vice president and managing editor, Michael Silverman

The net worth of Advance Publications is more than $9 billion today

The New York Times

The Wall Street Journal

The Washington Post