Analysis and Opinion

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.)

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.)

Internet Part Of The Media Continuum - Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.

Issue - Corporate Ownership - Articles and commentaries critical of corporate media dominance from FAIR.

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.

Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian - Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.

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)

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)

Metro Times Detroit: The Threat to the Net, - Commentary by Pat Aufderheide originally 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. (February 2, 2000)

Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again - Article by conservative columnist Brent Bozell contending that liberal fears of corporate control of media is a myth. (September 7, 1995)