media monopolies
Consolidated news empires
Media monopolies are situations where a single company or small group controls most of the news, entertainment, or information sources in a market.
The term usually carries critical connotations—suggesting reduced diversity of viewpoints, diminished competition, and concentrated power over public discourse: Critics warn that media monopolies threaten democracy.
The phrase appears frequently in debates about broadcast regulation and antitrust policy.
- market concentrationExtent of seller dominance
- corporate consolidationMerging of business entities
- market dominanceControl over a sector
- profit maximizationPursuing greatest possible gains
- cross-ownershipMutual shareholding between entities
antitrust laws · echo chambers · barriers to entry · oligopoly · vertical integration · too big to fail · political lobbying · holding companies · mergers · Rupert Murdoch · conglomerates · acquisitions · parent companies · Berlusconi · economies of scale · press freedom · public interest · propaganda
- Media Ownershipcross-ownership, newspaper chains, broadcast networks, cable networks, radio stations
- mass culturepop culture, popular culture, mass communication, entertainment, television
media monopoliesindependent media
Journalism without external control
public broadcasting · citizen journalism · local media · community media · grassroots media
media monopoliesfree press
Journalism without censorship
independent journalism · editorial independence · alternative media · grassroots journalism · citizen journalism
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