Big Six Media + Big Three Ownership — The Structural Overton Window
Phase II — Corporate Consolidation (1983-Present)
The Big Six: Disney ($176.1 billion: ABC, ESPN, Hulu), Comcast ($108.5 billion: NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Sky), Warner Bros Discovery ($68 billion: CNN, HBO), Fox Corp (Fox News), Paramount ($10.8 billion: CBS, MTV, Showtime), Sony.
Also in The Information Control Architecture
Operation Mockingbird → Church Committee → PrivatizationPhase I — The State-Media Apparatus (1948-1976)NGO Cutouts + Former Officials — The Modern InterfacePhase III — Intelligence-Media Laundering (2000s-PThe Conditioning Layer — Youth Capture + Alt-Media MonetizationPhase IV — Rebellion as Revenue StreamAlt Media Captured — The Other ContainersPhase IV-B — Progressive Capture ArchitectureZiklag (USATransform)Phase IV-C — Billionaire Theological Dark MoneyThe Dead Internet Actualized — 51% Bot TrafficPhase V — The Terminal Phase (2024-Present)