[lbo-talk] Media Concentration database--where's it at?

[Jim Devine]

it's not the ownership that matters as much as the goals of the
newspapers and other media outlets (i.e., profit-seeking, i.e.,
ad-selling). Deviations from that goal can go right-wing (such as Col.
McCormick's old Chicago TRIBUNE) or left-wing (I can't think of any)
... except that it's usually millionaires who run newspapers as
hobbies. It's not like the old New York P.M. Freedom of the press is
for those who own one.

The corporatization of media mostly means the homogenization, whereas
a lot of homogenization was already there, driven by profit-seeking.

On 2/2/06, gboozell at juno.com <gboozell at juno.com> wrote:
> Here's a url on media ownership from Free Press
>
> http://www.freepress.net/content/ownership
>
> I think the number of owners is less of a problem
> than the fact that the media landscape is so
> overwhelmingly corporate owned and controlled.
> 50 capitalist owners instead of 10 isn't likely to result
> in much better journalism.
>
> Greg Boozell
> gboozell at juno.com
>
>
> -- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is Ben Bagdikian's "Media Monopoly" still being
> revised and updated? It's not an online source, but if
> there's a fairly recent version it might have a URL or
> two associated with it.
>
> -B.
>
>
>
> >> Leigh Meyers wrote:
> >>
> >>> How come we don't know more about media
> concentration?
>
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