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  • Big Fish Of Media Corporations
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    Merging Media Corporations are in recent days becoming ever more controversial for the fact they control a massive amount of information reaching the public. With the recent merging of ABC and Disney, concern has grown about whether the information from all the news programs and magazines might not be telling the whole story all of the time. Picture this: An ocean full of small fish, all competing at the same level. All of a sudden a larger fish swallows up a few of the smaller fish for lunch. A...
  • Media Bias
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    The 'media' as a whole plays a major part in one's life. Media messages can be presented in many ways from reading newspapers to watching news on television from the comfort of your own home. However, the most important factors are how the news is retrieved and portrayed by an individual or a group of individuals as each individual has the right to accept what they believe not what they are manipulated to believe or to accept. There are various issues that can be looked at to conclude whether or...
  • American Media Corporations
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    In America, the media holds a powerful and effective position in politicizing and socializing the general populace. The main political function of the media is to inform and analyze while being accountable. However the question of whether the media produces a pluralist democracy, or fosters a one dimensional society still remains unanswered. Many contemporary philosophers conclude that the media does contribute to both, some even postulate other drawbacks, for instance they posit that the media ...
  • Form Of Mass Media
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    Mass Media and Public Opinion The generalized idea of every individual's personality is "I have my own thoughts". When this statement is examined closer, the question arises of what influences one to believe the things they do Mass media plays an immense role in the form shaping of people's opinions and views through means of ownership, commercialization and news coverage. The rich keep getting richer, including corporations. One way they do so is through owning and merging media outlets. Becaus...
  • Their Control Over The Media Market
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    Issue # 141. Media Monopolies: Are the Dangers of Concentration Overstated? Yes, by Eli M. Noam and Robert N. Freeman No, by Ben H. Bagdikian 2. The main focus behind the two articles are the concentration of media. Through the Telecommunications Act of 1996 attempts were made to limit the amount of monopolies in media. However this opened the door for other large businesses to merge and gain even more control, therefor creating more concentration in the media. Are the "media monopolies" doing t...
  • Fcc Should Relax Its Ownership Rules
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    A business exists to make a profit. This is a statement that even a child understands. In order to keep the doors open and to be successful a company must find ways to keep costs down and revenue up. The business of media is no different. One way that the media corporations try to do this is by merging together with other media outlets and becoming more streamline. They are able to combine their resources and in turn bring down prices for the consumer. In the piece by Michael K. Powell called, "...
  • Would A Better Place In Corporations
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    When Corporations Rule the Worldly David C. KortenThere is not a very positive view of people in this book. The ideal that people are naturally bad is an overwhelming concept in the book, When Corporations Rule the Wold by David Korten. The book examines the nature, recent developments, and policies of corporations around the wold. Korten find nothing good or positive, instead he focuses on how corporations are like cancerous tumors on America and how we can rid ourselves of these cancers. He se...
  • Hands Of Corporations
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    How much of what your read in a paper or magazine, or hear on the television is actually the true story, and how much of it has been altered by a corporation who wishes to control what you hear The public should feel that they are getting the whole story, not a story approved by an executive, taking out content that is damaging to the parent corporation or something they just don t agree with. When parent companies interfere with the reporting of sources under their control they are wrongfully u...
  • News And Information From Today's Mass Media
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    I. Introduction In this book report, the book that I read was The Media Monopoly, the Fifth Edition. This book was written by Ben H. Bagdikian, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Bagdikian originally published this book in 1983. Author Bagdikian explores the way in which the media functions. His particular area of interest is the way in which the media is controlled. His exploration details ...
  • Independent And Non Profit Media
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    1. Introduction Over the past few decades, nations around the world have become increasingly democratic. The media plays a large part in this process, bringing information, news, and entertainment into people's lives, and giving different communities the ability to obtain various types of information, regardless their age, race, and gender. During the second half of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth century in the United States of America, a part of the commercial press became m...
  • Crossover Into Other Media Outlets
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    The media has become a tremendous influence on life as we know it today. Each media outlet generates an incredible amount of money. With plenty of money to be made by media outlets, corporations that have nothing to do with media, want to stake a claim of their own into the media. To this, they will use their substantial funds to by ownership of media companies. As these non media companies buy more media outlets, they form what is called a conglomeration. These conglomerations can often grow to...

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