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

[Jim Devine]

On 2/2/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> --
> Jim Devine
>
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Jim Devine

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