Is it time to break up the monopoly called Mainstream Media ?

[kentuck]

After all, they are nothing but large corporations that own mutiple means of communications. Why are they different from the phone companies that were broken up? To suggest that there are many "cable outlets" to compete against them is to cloud the issue. Most of the cable "news" networks are either part of their corporations or are comedy or TV or shopping channels - not news channels - with the possible exception of CNN. But CNN is not what it used to be. They seem to parrot the GE and FOX line as much as GE and FOX do? Just a thought, although I realize no politician would have the courage to suggest such a thing...

[neoblues]

1. Naw... the SINGLE Point of View...

Keeps us all "united"... :sarcasm:

[leftofthedial]

2. major media

especially the modern equivalent of the "press"--any print, cable, broadcast or Internet medium that provides "news"

but the music industry, for example, also suffers from monopolization (the same corporations own publishing, record labels, artist management, concert venues, distribution channels, broadcast--the entire supply chain now serves corporate interests, which almost exclusively conflict with the public interest.

oil

pharmaceuticals

defense-related industries

healthcare


all should be nationalized or ruthlessly regulated in one way or another

[tabasco]

3. The corporate media must be destroyed.

Corporate propaganda is helping to destroy the country.

"News" corps are nothing but the PR branches of war-profiteering corporations.

They report in a manner that will help the parent corps.

The monopolies must be destroyed.

[valerief]

4. Don't pay for cable/satellite. You support the lie machine. n/t

[Armstead]

5. It was alrteady time 20 years ago

The complicity of the political leradershop of BOTH parties in the theft of the nation's information infrastructure by a few monopolistic corporations since the 1970's is a disgrace.

It should never have been allowed to happen in the first place.

[Vidar]

6. The last serious move against monopolies was under Carter==AT&T.

[LSK]

7. the REAL question is HOW DO YOU DO IT?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

8. You have to buy their stock and take them over - like Murdock and Moon did

Unfortunately, Ted Turner allowed someone else to take over CNN - that's why that network went to hell.

[Armstead]

9. Anti-Trust and Anti-Monopoly regulation. And reinstall FCC ownership rules

That's not as utopian as it sounds. That's how we used to do things. It is a fairly recvent abberation to have one comnpany like Clear Channel owning 10 radio stations in a single city, for example.

It used to be that one company could only own one AM and one FM station in town, and they were limited to the number of stations they could own nationwide.

That would be a reasonable standard to return to.