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Mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence a large number of people, and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.[1] The term is used to contrast with alternative media which may contain content with more dissenting thought at variance with the prevailing views of mainstream sources. The term is often used for large news conglomerates, including newspapers and broadcast media, that underwent successive mergers in many countries. The concentration of media ownership has raised concerns of a homogenization of viewpoints presented to news consumers. Consequently, the term mainstream media has been widely used in conversation and the blogosphere, sometimes in oppositional, pejorative, or dismissive senses, in discussion of the mass media and media bias. According to philosopher Noam Chomsky, media organizations with an elite audience such as CBS News and The New York Times are successful corporations with the assets necessary to set the tone for other smaller news organizations which lack comparable resources by creating conversations that cascade down to smaller news organizations using the Associated Press and other means of aggregation. An elite mainstream sets the agenda and smaller organizations parrot it Alternative termsThe advent of the Internet allowed the expression of a more diverse or alternative viewpoint which may contrast to mainstream media, to the point where the term mainstream media is seen in pejorative terms.[2] Lamestream media is a common pejorative alternative. Sarah Palin referred to "lamestream media", notably around 2009 during her participation in the Tea Party Express, in the context of what she perceived as media misrepresentation of the Tea Party movement.[3][4][5]Another term, originating on anonymous message boards, for the Mainstream Media is the acronym "MSM". The term is widely used by many on 4chan and Reddit, often as shorthand for the phrase "Mainstream Media". United States{{main|Media cross-ownership in the United States}}In the United States, movie production is known to have been dominated by major studios since the early 20th century; before that, there was a period in which Edison's Trust monopolized the industry.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} In the early twenty-first century the music and television industries was subject to media consolidation, with Sony Music Entertainment's parent company merging their music division with Bertelsmann AG's BMG to form Sony BMG and Tribune's The WB and CBS Corp.'s UPN merging to form The CW. In the case of Sony BMG there existed a "Big Five", later "Big Four", of major record companies, while The CW's creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the "Big Four" of American network (terrestrial) television (although the CW was actually partially owned by one of the Big Four in CBS). In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by eight corporations: News Corporation (the Fox family of channels), The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands), National Amusements (which includes CBS Corporation and Viacom), Comcast (which includes the NBC brands), Time Warner, Discovery Communications, E. W. Scripps Company, Cablevision, or some combination thereof.[6] There may also be some large-scale owners in an industry that are not the causes of monopoly or oligopoly. Clear Channel Communications, especially since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, acquired many radio stations across the United States, and came to own more than 1,200 stations. However, the radio broadcasting industry in the United States and elsewhere can be regarded as oligopolistic regardless of the existence of such a player. Because radio stations are local in reach, each licensed a specific part of spectrum by the FCC in a specific local area, any local market is served by a limited number of stations. In most countries, this system of licensing makes many markets local oligopolies. The similar market structure exists for television broadcasting, cable systems and newspaper industries, all of which are characterized by the existence of large-scale owners. Concentration of ownership is often found in these industries.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} In the United States, data on ownership and market share of media companies is not held in the public domain.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} Recent media mergers in the United StatesOver time the rate of media mergers has increased, while the number of media outlets has also increased. This has resulted in a higher concentration of ownership, with fewer companies owning more media outlets. In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90% is controlled by just six companies.[7] The "Big Six"
Although Viacom and CBS Corporation have been separate companies since 2006, they are both partially owned subsidiaries of the private National Amusements company, headed by Sumner Redstone. As such, Paramount Home Entertainment handles DVD/Blu-ray distribution for most of the CBS Corporation library. American public distrust in the mediaA 2012 Gallup poll found that Americans' distrust in the mainstream media was higher than it had ever been, with 60% saying they had little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. Distrust had increased since the previous few years, when Americans were already more negative about the media than they had been before 2004.[11] Throughout 2016, Google and Facebook had been targeted to disperse a substantial amount of fake news, with the aim, it was claimed, of confusing Americans about various topics. Following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election and during the campaign, Americans who supported Hillary Clinton were especially enraged about the noticeable amount of fake news about the election on the two websites. It was said that Facebook has been targeted in order to sway the American people with a particular agenda during the electoral cycle, although the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg stated that "Facebook did not have a role in the recent presidential campaign". It was also reported that the insurmountable number of "fake news" posts about the election had increased the number of Americans distrusting the media.[12] United KingdomIn England, during 1922, after the closure of many radio stations, the British Broadcasting Company started its first daily radio transmission and started to grow an audience.[13] Later that year John Reith, a Scottish engineer, would be appointed the first General Manager for the BBC.[13] Later on January 1, 1927 the BBC was fully established by Royal Charter and renamed the British Broadcasting Corporation with Reith as the first Director-General.[13] During November of 1936 the BBC began to expand into television broadcasting and was the first broadcaster to start the trend of a regularly scheduled TV service. [14] Today the BBC is one of two chartered public broadcasting companies in the United Kingdom. The second is ITV, Independent Television, which was established in 1955 as the first public commercial television company after the Television act of 1954 in an effort to break up the monopoly the BBC had on television broadcasting, gaining fifteen regional broadcasting licenses in less than twenty years.[15] [16] Today the BBC and ITV are the two free to air digital services offered to everyone in the United Kingdom and each others biggest competitors. The BBC has nine national television channels, BBC three, the first channel to switch from television to online, an interactive channel, ten national and forty local radio stations, BBC Online, and BBC Worldwide.[17] ITV currently holds thirteen of the fifteen regional broadcasting licenses in the United Kingdom that carries their multiple channels including ITV, ITVhub, ITV2, ITVBe, ITV 3, ITV4, CITV, ITV Encore, Britbox, a video-on-demand service in collaboration with the BBC to bring British television content to the United States and Canada, and Cirkus, their own video-on-demand service. [18] See also{{Wikiquote}}{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}
Notes1. ^Chomsky, Noam, "What makes mainstream media mainstream", October 1997, Z Magazine, {{Media culture}}2. ^2013, Olesya Tkacheva, Internet Freedom and Political Space, p. 35 3. ^CBS News (cbsnews.com), "Sarah Palin: Obama's Policies Are 'Un-American{{'"}}, April 14, 2010, 4. ^Politico (politico.com), "Sarah Palin trashes 'lamestream media{{'"}}, 11/18/09, 5. ^Los Angeles Times, {{"'}}Tea party' protesters in Nevada target health law, Reid", March 28, 2010 6. ^{{cite web|last=Steiner|first=Tobias|title=Under the Macroscope: Convergence in the US Television Market between 2000 and 2014|url=https://www.academia.edu/2017902/Under_the_Macroscope_Convergence_in_the_US_Television_Market_between_2000_and_2014|publisher=academia.edu|accessdate=4 Aug 2015}} 7. ^Entertainment More: Infographic Media Corporation Mergers And Acquisitions These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America - Business Insider, June 14 2012 8. ^Ownership Chart: The Big Six. (2009) Free Press. Retrieved from http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main 9. ^{{cite web|title=NASDAQ Revenue and EPS Summary|url=http://www.nasdaq.com|website=NASDAQ.com|publisher=NASDAQ.com|accessdate=31 August 2015}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=News Corp officially splits in two|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23104822|work=BBC News|accessdate=June 29, 2013}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx |title=U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High|first=|last=|website=Gallup|date=September 21, 2012}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://curious.stratford.edu/2016/11/22/moving-forward-google-and-facebook-against-fake-news/ |title=Moving Forward: Google and Facebook Against Fake News|first=Al|last=Gomez|website=Stratford University|date=November 22, 2016}} 13. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=History of the BBC-1920s |url=https://www.bbc.com/timelines/zxqc4wx |website=BBC.com |accessdate=18 November 2018}} 14. ^{{cite web |title=History of the BBC-1930s |url=https://www.bbc.com/timelines/zqbfyrd |website=BBC.com |accessdate=18 November 2018}} 15. ^{{cite web |title=About ITV/History |url=https://www.itvplc.com/about/history/2017 |website=Itvplc.com |accessdate=19 November 2018}} 16. ^{{cite web |title=Television Act of 1954 |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/radio-television-bbc.htm |website=The National Archives |accessdate=19 November 2018}} 17. ^{{cite web |title=BBC at a glance |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/ataglance |website=BBC.com |accessdate=18 November 2018}} 18. ^{{cite web |title=About ITV/ What we do |url=https://www.itvplc.com/about/what-we-do |website=itvplc.com |accessdate=19 November 2018}} 2 : Concentration of media ownership|News media |
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