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money, than it is to do business with real African-American owned media. What Comcast did is, they give Al Sharpton money so he doesn’t call them racist. That is the issue here… (He) is nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game. He’s not even bright enough to know he’s on the chess board, and he’s being used by his white masters at Comcast, specifically David Cohen (executive V.P. of Comcast) and Brian Roberts (chairman and CEO of Comcast).”[/quote_box_center]

Byron claims the same thing about Al Sharpton and AT&T:
[quote_box_center]“Why is Al Sharpton getting more money from AT&T than Ebony Magazine, which has been around for 70 years?…I find it outstanding that AT&T is the biggest sponsor of Sharpton’s 60th birthday party. (They) spent more money on Al Sharpton’s birthday party than they have on 100 percent African-American owned media combined. He should return the money because AT&T doesn’t even celebrate Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. The employees there take it as a sick day.”[/quote_box_center]

Only time will tell how true these allegations are, so until then we’ll just have to sit back and watch the show. The one thing that doesn’t surprise any of us is that a lot of the time big mainstream media business is largely operated under the table. Remember that the unspoken, primary goal of the mainstream media is to control information, if they can control information that they give to the people, they can control the people. I just hope the these allegations have no merit because I would hate to think that even our civil rights leaders have a price…tag that is.

Source: blogs.indiewire.com