These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies (2016)

Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by xtracto on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:13PM (#26136759)

A very long time ago (15 years maybe?) there was a great internet site (I don't remember the name anymore) which showed a graph of top ~100 largest companies in the USA, their CEOs and their boards.

When expanding the graph you could basically see that the same 30 or 40 people where in the boards of major companies, from Pepi to Johnson&Johnson to Microsoft to Fox and other communication companies.

It showed a really interesting picture of how really consolidated the control was at the top.

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by DerDangDerDang on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:35PM (#26136932)

Wow I was surprised it was so long ago! Assuming you were thinking of theyrule - seems it’s sort of still online but requires flash

http://www.theyrule.net/2001/

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by xtracto on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:39AM (#26143705)

Oh my god, yes this is it! and yes it was in Flash. I had completely forgotten about the name but clearly remembered the site. Thanks for bringing it back.

EDIT: I tried to run the SWF file on Ruffle but there is no data. I can imagine that the SWF contacted some backend server to load data which is no longer available.

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by DerDangDerDang on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:12PM (#26174203)

Any idea if this sort of data is still available?

I’m kinda sad that theyrule didn’t live on and become an institution, honestly

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by imgabe on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:37PM (#26136951)

I believe it was http://theyrule.net Unfortunately, it looks like it's no longer up. You can find the home page on the Wayback machine[1] but it looks like the data was all in Flash.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080901010712/http://www.theyrul...

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by rangibaby on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:49AM (#26141019)

Rotten.com (really) had a great tool that showed connections between people on a graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by bndw on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:19PM (#26137610)

I'm interested in this sort of data. Anyone know of any public APIs or indexes containing the executive teams of public companies?

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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ... by ajmadesc on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:49PM (#26138164)

Interlocking directorate

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