Review of MSM ownership

ABC Wholly Owned by Disney

Disney Largest Stock holders

Individual-

Rupert Murdoch 4.5%

Steve Jobs(Family Trust) 4%

Institutional

Vanguard

CNN = Timer Warner (Pending Merger with AT&T)

NBC Owned by General Electric

Fox News

Rupert Murdoch Held a Controlling Stake in the Voting shares and a much smaller over all. Murdoch Lost Controlling stake when Alwaleed Sold his interest, but still holds a the largest interest.

No one person or individual holds a controlling stake, but collectively institutional ownership has the largest interest/controlling interest all of these companies. We might say the banks collectively hold the proxies for all of these companies. They are unified through their membership in the Federal Reserve.

One might argue that the federal reserve, as an organization own's/controls the mainstream media. Fox(Common Stock doesn't Vote) through Murdoch would be the only exception, but even that is dicey.

With Facebook, Zuckerberg holds a controlling interest in voting stock

Twitter a kind of mysterious individual Suhail Rizvi owns >10%. Dorsey, Evan Williams all appear to be selling off their stakes.