Media Monopolies Issues

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  • "Let's hope people wake up. If TV broadcasters and newspapers merge at a national scale and the nightly news, the cable guy, and the Daily Bugle all start sporting mouse ears, I for one am going to get a little freaked." Cecil Adams, "The Straight Dope" column, 2/27/04. ..
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  • Many people die when media is monopolized. Media corporations make fortunes on war by currying the favor of lawmakers and regulators. The biggest monopolies also make fortunes on war directly through sales of products to armed forces and through affecting world markets. Cf. "Why media ownership matters", by Amy Goodman and David Goodman, Seattle Times, April 3, 2005.
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Big Media: The Public is Right to Be Concerned", by CMA members Steve Macek and Mitchell Szczepanczyk as a letter to the editors of the Chicago Tribune.


Issues include:
. Stations fail their public service requirement. Charge candidates and public issues groups for 'time'. Inundate us with commercial interruptions. Place lengthy blocks of totally commercial content. Fail to broadcast public debates on issues like war. Racial stereotyping. Labor issues distort. Worker stereotyping. Over cover rich interests, under cover poor, older, children. Demographic distortion of service. Many support the National Association of Broadcasters and its unenlightened notion of public service, and its corrupting influence on public officials.
Bad Moguls sez FP