Goliath getting bigger. (Networks).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, May, 2002
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IN THE EARLY 1980S, MEDIA critic Ben Bagdikian concluded that there were about 50 owners of the nation's major media outlets. By 2000 that figure had declined to six. A new study by Mark Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America reveals that more than 60 percent of today's newspaper markets are monopolies.
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Concentration in the broadcast world is similar. And the explosion of "new media," which once seemed like a promising way to diversify voices and information, seems too often thwarted by the corporations that dominate the Internet. AOL Time Warner properties account ...
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