Ultra concentraded media: top selling brands: the largest size media companies in the world - with just a few of their `family brands'

New Internationalist, April, 2001

`Our reach is unmatched around the world. We're reaching people from the moment they wake up until they fall asleep.' -- Rupert Murdoch(6)

Researched by Granville Williams of CPBF. The full ownership chart is hosted online by Media Channel. www.mediachannel.org/ownership

(1) Time magazine, 25 December 2000; (2) The Independent Historical Commission for Investigating the History of the Bertelsmann House during the `Third Reich', http://www.uhkommission.de/news.htm; (3) No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo, 2000; (4) Financial analyst, New York Times, 8 September 1999; (5) Off the Record, Center for Public Integrity; (6) News Corporation 1999 Annual Report; (7) The Economist, 20 March 1999