concentration of power into fewer and fewer hands
Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_e(Yet more from Michael Hart)
The media continue to be gobbled up by "Merger Mania."
Ever wonder why so much of North American media content looks as if it were all written by clones?
There are ~1,800 newspapers, ~11,000 magazines, ~11,000 radio stations, ~2,000 TV stations and ~3,000+ book publishers in the United States:
Companies owning a controlling interest in the major players:
50 in 1984
26 in 1987
10 in 1996
6 in 2002
Today about 90% of the media voices have been silenced by takeovers, just compared to the number we had 20 years ago. . . .
Source: NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Massive Media | PBS
The media continue to be gobbled up by "Merger Mania."
Ever wonder why so much of North American media content looks as if it were all written by clones?
There are ~1,800 newspapers, ~11,000 magazines, ~11,000 radio stations, ~2,000 TV stations and ~3,000+ book publishers in the United States:
Companies owning a controlling interest in the major players:
50 in 1984
26 in 1987
10 in 1996
6 in 2002
Today about 90% of the media voices have been silenced by takeovers, just compared to the number we had 20 years ago. . . .
Source: NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Massive Media | PBS