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.)
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.)
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.
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)
