What if your news is just corporate PR?

Let's look at the top holders of these companies and how much they own.

New York Times. Owned by

1. Vanguard (8.34%)
2. State Street (7.45%)

AT&T (CNN). Owned by

1. Vanguard (7.94%)
2. Blackrock (7.13%)
3. State Street (4.16%)

Comcast (NBC/MSNBC) Owned by

1. Vanguard (8.55%)
2. Blackrock (6.93%)
3. State Street (3.73%)

Fox Corporation (Fox News) Owned by

1. Vanguard (6.84%)
2. Blackrock (4.56%)
3. State Street (2.81%)

Now onto the companies making our medicine.

Moderna Owned by 3. Vanguard (5%) 4. Blackrock (4.8%) 6. State Street (1.81%)

Pfizer Owned by

1. Vanguard (8.14%)
2. Blackrock (7.26%)
3. State Street (4.97%)

Johnson & Johnson Owned by

1. Vanguard (8.79%)
2. Blackrock (7.27%)
3. State Street (5.4%)

Merck Owned by

1. Vanguard (8.91%)
2. Blackrock (7.39%)
3. State Street (4.51%)

Google (Alphabet Inc) Owned by

Take a guess....

1. Vanguard (6.64%)
2. Blackrock (5.97%)
3. State Street (3.33%)

It would be naïve to expect unbiased search results.

Raytheon (makers of the Tomahawk missile)

Guess who owns them?

Did you guess?

1. State Street (9.46%)
2. Vanguard (8.51%)
3. Blackrock (6.72%)

Remember back in 2017 when Trump had about the only three positive news days in his presidency.

He shot Tomahawk missiles into Syria. Make sense now?

What if your news is just corporate PR?

It is. Once you realize it, the world changes.