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

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 Pag
http://www.rain.org/~openmind//medstud1.htm

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

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

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

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

Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian

Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html

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

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

Issue - Corporate Ownership

Articles and commentaries critical of corporate media dominance from FAIR.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=7&issue_area_id=6