The Puppet Masters of the entire Mainstream Media (MSM) in USA. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK and the EU

Below a chart that should show you how misinformed most of us happen to be if we rely on the MSM  for our news.  Just as we require different types of foods to get the maximum benefits from them to lead a healthy lifestyle, so also we require a generous helping of the alternative media to help us make up our own minds on what we choose to believe.  If you like fast food at every single meal (MSM) go ahead, it's your choice.  You want to give a chance to the organic stuff (Alternative media) and take a sip or a nibble  ... you won't be disappointed.  It's an acquired taste - and you won't go back to the fast food stuff  - at least not on a regular basis.

Quite a fascinating article that I recommend you read to its entirety. 


Swiss Propaganda Research at GlobalResearch
The Propaganda Multiplier: How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics



Introduction: “Something strange”
“How does the newspaper know what it knows?” The answer to this question is likely to surprise some newspaper readers: “The main source of information is stories from news agencies. The almost anonymously operating news agencies are in a way the key to world events. So what are the names of these agencies, how do they work and who finances them? To judge how well one is informed about events in East and West, one should know the answers to these questions.” (Höhne 1977, p. 11)
A Swiss media researcher points out:

“The news agencies are the most important suppliers of material to mass media. No daily media outlet can manage without them. () So the news agencies influence our image of the world; above all, we get to know what they have selected.” (Blum 1995, p. 9)

In view of their essential importance, it is all the more astonishing that these agencies are hardly known to the public:

“A large part of society is unaware that news agencies exist at all … In fact, they play an enormously important role in the media market. But despite this great importance, little attention has been paid to them in the past.” (Schulten-Jaspers 2013, p. 13)

Even the head of a news agency noted:

“There is something strange about news agencies. They are little known to the public. Unlike a newspaper, their activity is not so much in the spotlight, yet they can always be found at the source of the story.” (Segbers 2007, p. 9)

“The Invisible Nerve Center of the Media System”
So what are the names of these agencies that are “always at the source of the story”? There are now only three global agencies left:

1. The American Associated Press (AP) with over 4000 employees worldwide. The AP belongs to US media companies and has its main editorial office in New York. AP news is used by around 12,000 international media outlets, reaching more than half of the world’s population every day.
2. The quasi-governmental French Agence France-Presse (AFP) based in Paris and with around 4000 employees. The AFP sends over 3000 stories and photos every day to media all over the world.
3. The British agency Reuters in London, which is privately owned and employs just over 3000 people. Reuters was acquired in 2008 by Canadian media entrepreneur Thomson – one of the 25 richest people in the world – and merged into Thomson Reuters, headquartered in New York.

In addition, many countries run their own news agencies. However, when it comes to international news, these usually rely on the three global agencies and simply copy and translate their reports......