Fri, 04 Apr 2003
Bill Moyers on Media Consolidation
I managed to catch Bill Moyers piece on US media consolidation tonight on PBS and it was compelling. I knew Clear Channel sucked before seeing this program, but I didn't know it was that bad. Of particular interest was the partisanship surrounding the administration of the FCC. This article paints a very grim picture for the present and future of big media journalism and it's relationship to the US government.
What it doesn't explain is that the situation with commercial scheduling software is arguably headed for similar levels of monopolization. Should we then be surprised when the average American is reduced to lemming status receiving the same messages from the same publishers running the same commercial scheduling software paid for by the same advertisers on the wings of a rubber stamp commission?
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