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Hi rkalla:

Thanks very much for your contribution to the production of #killswitch the documentary.

You're right, there is a lot corruption and sometimes it's difficult to make sense of it all.

In my opinion the most alarming part of all is the unprecedented corruption and concentration of the traditional media.

You can really get a sense of how corrupt and concentrated the media industry is when you check out these ownership charts on FreePress.com... You'd be amazed at how many television stations, Film Production Studios, Magazines, Online, holdings, etc. a company like General Electric or Walt Disney owns.

Here's the charts: http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main

Once you realize how much control over knowledge and information these six companies have and how few people in the US get their news outside of these six sources you realize we've got a major problem for a functioning democracy.

Now that these companies are threatening the integrity of the Internet (NBC-Comcast Merger)... Wait to see which major media conglomerate will be the next to merge with a major ISP... it's quite possible that in the not so distant future the Internet will look like super-charged cable T.V.

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