Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Who Controls the Media?

Use the following link to take you to a chart that diagrams who owns the major media outlets in the United States. After reviewing this information, what's your reaction to these charts? Is too much power over the media concentrated into too few companies? How does this affect the news an average "media consumer" receives? Explain your response.

http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html
http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html
http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml