The Six Corporations Who Control the Media

Now there is a plan that would ease limits on media owners

When Ben Bagdikian's important work The Media Monopoly was first published in 1983, 50 corporations owned most of American media. With the fifth edition in 1997, only 10 corporations control almost everything we see, hear and read, leading to loss of depth, range and quality in the news and limitation of subjects addressed on the national agenda to those that won't rock the corporate boat. Here`s a good article from a former FCC commissioner back in 1995..

And the Columbia Journalism Reviews guide to what the major media companies own.