media monopoly
Single-owner press control
A media monopoly is dominance of information channels by a single company or small group of companies.
The term usually carries critical connotations—suggesting that concentrated ownership limits diverse viewpoints and serves corporate interests over public ones: Critics argue the merger would create a media monopoly.
The phrase often appears in debates about press freedom and antitrust regulation.
- corporate consolidationMerging of business entities
- antitrust lawsRegulations preventing corporate monopolies
- conglomeratesLarge diversified corporations
- vertical integrationOwning multiple production stages
- acquisitionsThings newly gained
too big to fail · censorship · mergers · propaganda · fair coverage · market dominance · market share · echo chambers · Rupert Murdoch · oligopoly · local news · one voice · profit maximization · cross-ownership · press freedom · barriers to entry · price fixing · Berlusconi
- media businessadvertising, ratings, subscriptions, revenue streams, monetization
- press freedomfreedom of the press, press freedom, press rights, editorial freedom, editorial independence
- pressnewspaper, press laws, free press, newsroom, press cards
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- media ethicsjournalism ethics, journalistic ethics, journalistic integrity, code of ethics, checkbook journalism
- propagandapropaganda, brainwashing, disinformation, misinformation, indoctrination
media monopolycommunity media
Locally produced, locally controlled broadcasting
grassroots media · citizen journalism · user-generated content
media, monopoly, medium, medial, mediate, mediation, mediator, median, multimedia