Big Media

KEY QUOTES
“What happened to radio, happened to television, and then it happened to cable. If we are not diligent, then it will happen to the Internet [creating] a media plantation for the 21st Century dominated by the same corporate and ideological forces that have controlled the media for the last 50 years.”

“All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations– and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsroom consider their missions.”
Laurie Garrett, former Newsday (NY) journalist   Source: The Daily, Univ of Was Seattle, 3/29/05

“Consider that for the first time in human history a child is born into a home which television is on an average of about seven hours a day. And for the first time in human history most of the stories are told not by the parent, not by the school, not by the church, not by the tribes or community, and in many places not even by the native country, but by a relatively small group of conglomerates who have something to sell.”     
George Gerbner, communications researcher/scholar

• And Then There Were Eight (as of 3/2007)
• The Big Picture (media landscape in the US) (July 2014)
• Big Media News
• The Conglomerization of Magazines (Mar/Apr 2007)
• Corporate Ownership
• Corporate Influence In The Media
• Corporate Media Consolidation (June 2008)
• Diversity in TV Station Ownership
• Global Media Giants (1997) Ten Things Big Media Doesn’t Want You To Know
• Mass Media & Politics: An Analysis of Influence
• Media Concentration
• Media Consolidation (PBS-NOW)
• Media corporation chart
• Media Monopoly Index
• The Media Monopoly Myth
• Media Monopoly Revisited (2011)
• Media Owners
• Media Ownership (Canada)
• Media Ownership (chart as of June 2006)
• Media Ownership (pdf chart as of Aug. 2004)
• Media Ownership & Democracy in the Digital Information Age (pdf)
• Media ownership & deregulation
• Media Ownership
• Media Ownership
• Media Ownership (links to companies)
• Media Reform.net
• “Ownership Concentration and Indecency in Broadcasting: Is There a Link?
• Reclaim The Media
• Take Back The Media
• Ten Things Big Media Doesn’t Want You To Know
• Top 25 Media Cos Campaign Contributions
• Top 25 Station Groups: Ranked by Revenues (May 2006)
• NEWEST Top 30 Global Media Owners (2015)
• Well Connected: Media Tracker (find out who owns media in your location)
• Who Owns The Media (2012)
• Who Owns The Media?
• Who Owns The News?
• Who Owns What?  (CJR)

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July 2006

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• Media Companies Family Tree Chart Details Who Owns What (Adage, 8/20)
• Global Media (Foreign Policy Review)
• US Media: Pervasive or Not (Japantoday, 11/14/02)
• What’s The Point of Media Giants? (May 25, 2002) The Economist
• Media Mergers ( February 19, 2001)  Broadcasting/Cable
• Big Media And What You Can Do About It (January 7/14,2002) The Nation
• Commentary: Media Ownership: Why Bigger Is A Big Mistake
• The Myths of Encroaching Global Media Ownership
• The Big Deal (AOL/TWC) Time Magazine, January 24, 2000
• Your Survival Guide for the Big Media Age (Brills Content, Dec. 1999/Jan.2000)
• The New Global Media, Content & Discontent ( The Nation, Nov. 29, 1999)
• Media Giants Bad for Democracy (1999)
• TV: The Nature of the Beast (The Nation, 1998)
• Who Controls the Music? (The Nation, 1997)
• Free The Media (The Nation, 1996)

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