Websites in Analysis and Opinion

1. Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again
   Article by conservative columnist Brent Bozell contending that liberal fears of corporate control of media is a myth.
   https://secure.mediaresearch.org/columns/news/col19950907.html
   
   
2. Corporate Ownership of the Media
   Articles and commentaries critical of corporate media dominance from FAIR.
   http://www.fair.org/media-woes/corporate.html
   
   
3. Double the dumb
   Critique of the shallowness of news coverage of media mergers and social implications of concentrated ownership. By Norman Solomon, Media Beat columnist.
   http://www.sfbg.com/MediaBeat/81.html
   
   
4. How the News Media Covered a Media Merger
   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.)
   http://www.rain.org/~openmind//medstud1.htm
   
   
5. Info-Bandits
   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.)
   http://www.radiodiversity.com/infobandits.html
   
   
6. Internet Part Of The Media Continuum
   Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.
   http://www.internetnews.com/stocks/column/print/0,1089,41_134231,00.html
   
   
7. Media Mergers -- Atlantic Monthly Flashback
   A look back at the early days of corporate control and consolidation of media ownership. A compilation of three late 1960's articles warning about the trend. From Atlantic Monthly archives.
   http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/media/media.htm
   
   
8. Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian
   Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.
   http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html
   
   
9. Nicholas Johnson on Media Monopoly
   Interview with former FCC Commissioner and author of "How to Talk Back to Your Television" about possible implications of media monopolies. (1995)
   http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1995/05/mm0595_07.html
   
   
10. The Threat to the Net, By Pat Aufderheide
    Commentary in the February 2000 issue of The Progressive magazine contending that corporate cable and Internet providers may destroy freedom of access and expression on the Internet.
    http://www.progressive.org/auf002.htm
    
    
11. World Socialist Website -- Monopolies Tighten Grip on the Media
    Article critical of media monopolies and lack of news coverage and public debate about them. (Sept.11,1999)
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/merg-s11.shtml
    
    

Shortcuts: Arts Business Computers Games Health Home News Recreation Reference Regional Science Shopping Society Sports