Reddit mentions of The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters

No, no, no. Wrong. I have a PhD in media studies. I've studied this particular area of media studies extensively. This fact was not made up by a blogger. It is a fact studied most extensively by a great social scientist and journalist named Ben Bagdikian. He tracked this phenomenon in a series of 6 or 7 books called "The Media Monopoly."

It's very unfortunate that this blogger did not cite his sources and this is a huge part of the problem here, but I have no doubt that the work of Ben Bagdikian and other researchers in this area are the source of this information. It saddens me, actually, that a blogger like this would present this information unsourced because it (A) leaves the information vulnerable to this kind of criticism and (B) it presents the information as if the blogger came up with the information himself.

Note: there are many reasons why it's important to cite your sources, and this is a great example why.

Other authors to check out on the subject include Robert McChesney, C. Edwin Baker, and Eli Noam, among others.

Funny how an extensive area of research gets posted by a blogger and then incorrectly "refuted" by a random, anonymous Redditor.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act wasn't the beginning, not even close. Benjamin H. Bagdikian wrote a book in 1983 called The Media Monopoly, in which he warned that mergers and deregulation had caused 90% of US media to be controlled by 50 companies. Critics called him an alarmist. By 2011, 90% of US media was controlled by just 6 companies.

This book was first written about the subject in 1983. He was very prescient.

The problem is that the consolidation is probably a lot worse than you think it is. It's a little dated (but there have been updates), but The Media Monopoly is a great read on the subject.

I know. The New Media Monopoly (book)

Manufacturing Consent (documentary)

Independent liberals are allowed to talk about these things. Right-wing corporate whores are not, and attack anyone who does as being a "socialist" who "hates America." That's been my experience, anyway.

If you are interested in this subject, check out this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Media-Monopoly-Completely/dp/0807061875/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1/192-6714861-5499914?ie=UTF8&refRID=1FRF0HBTPN9ZTXGSTCV4

>Reality is I don't even have any way of knowing that what you say is true. In fact, given your post history and utter failure to back up what you have to say with any sources whatsoever that it's not accurate.

Verifying everything I said is pretty easy for anyone that knows how to do basic research, especially since I broke down most of the points.

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>Why didn't I think you were a journalist? Because most people who say "THE MEDIA NEEDS TO COVER THIS" aren't a part of the media.

I didn't say the Media Needs to Cover This, I asked a question, " Why aren't any news outlets covering the truth about what's going on with Vaping and Big Tobacco?"

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>They're capable of recognizing that it's a complex ecosystem filled with different competing organizations with different competing interests.

It's more like competing journalists and it's not that complex of an ecosystem given that there is even more lateral movement in the industry today than there was twenty years ago and there was a lot back then. If you're not a Chomsky fan you should at least check out Bagdikian.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Completely-Chapters/dp/0807061875