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English: American broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite (b. 1916) on television during 1st presidential debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 23 September 1976. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Broadcast Union News: Six (6) Corporation own 90% of all American print, broadcast, and digital media outlets :  "HOW MUCH CHOICE DOES THE MAINSTREAM US MEDIA REALLY OFFER? FAMILY FINANCIAL BLOGGER FRUGAL DAD HAS CREATED THIS INFOGRAPHIC THAT LAYS OUT THE EXTENT OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION IN THE US, WHERE JUST SIX MEDIA GIANTS CONTROL 90% OF ALL TV , NEWS, RADIO AND FILM." .. .ero .

Image via Wikipedia Forget 'six degrees'--we are actually closer | Digital Media - CNET News : "In a continuation of the concept of " six degrees of separation ," Facebook and the University of Milan announced tonight they had determined that the average number of people who separate any two individuals in the world is actually 4.74." "Using state-of-the-art algorithms developed at the Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli Studi di Milano, we were able to approximate the number of hops between all pairs of individuals on Facebook. We found that six degrees actually overstates the number of links between typical pairs of users: While 99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops). Related articles Forget 'six degrees'--we are actually closer (news.cnet.com) Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees (nytimes.com) Facebook is bringing peopl...