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This 5 page paper argues that the concentration of media in the hands of a few giant corporations means that we are verging on losing our democracy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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We might also consider the question of whether or not we can have democracy when all the media outlets are concentrated in the hands of a few conglomerates. This paper
discusses that question and argues that it is not possible to have the media concentrated and still maintain democracy. Discussion Ted Turner, himself a media mogul, has been among those
speaking out against the consolidation of big media into a few outlets, giving control of the news to a handful of organizations. Turner points out that when he started, he
was able to buy a TV station in Atlanta and another in Charlotte (Turner). Both were losing money but he turned them around: the Atlanta station became the Turner flagship
station, and Charlotte became CNN (Turner). His point is that he would not be able to do the same thing today: "In the current climate of consolidation, independent broadcasters simply
dont survive for long" (Turner). He relates that when he was getting started, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "took seriously the commissions mandate to promote diversity, localism, and competition
in the media marketplace" (Turner). It was the FCCs mission to make sure that the "big three" (CBS, NBC, ABC) "wouldnt forever dominate what the American public could watch on
TV" (Turner). The commission wanted the entrepreneurs to thrive; they wanted competition to arise so the audiences would have a choice (Turner). That was 35 years ago and things have
changed. Turner says that today, "thanks to a continual loosening of ownership rules by Washington," media is more concentrated than ever (Turner). Big media owns "not only broadcast networks and
local stations; they also own the cable companies that pipe in the signals of their competitors and the studios that produce most of the programming" (Turner). They also own nearly
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