Overview/History

This Global Issues articles examines the overall impact of media conglomerates, mergers and concentration of media ownership.

Mark Crispin Miller observes in The Nation about how media giants are constantly growing and shriveling at the same time. Also, it looks at how the media conglomerates focus on entertainment impacts journalism.

Columbia Journalism Review’s online guide to what major media companies own, along with a selected list of articles that have appeared in CJR about media ownership.

This article “Media Giants get Slapped” looks at how the House of Representatives approved by a 400-21 vote an appropriations bill that included language blocking implementation of a Federal Communications Commission rule change designed to allow a single corporation to own television stations that reach up to 45 percent of American viewers.

This web site provides an extensive amount of links to articles about the Global Media Giants.

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