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Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html
Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media. |
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Nicholas Johnson on Media Monopoly - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1995/05/mm0595_07.html
Interview with former FCC Commissioner and author of "How to Talk Back to Your Television" about possible implications of media monopolies. (1995) |
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World Socialist Website -- Monopolies Tighten Grip on the Media - http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/merg-s11.shtml
Article critical of media monopolies and lack of news coverage and public debate about them. (Sept.11,1999) |
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How the News Media Covered a Media Merger - http://www.rain.org/~openmind//medstud1.htm
Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pages.) |
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Info-Bandits - http://www.radiodiversity.com/infobandits.html
Article that criticizes the influence of industry money and lack of public interest considerations in the adoption of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (From In These Times.) |