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Global Concentration: The Media Ownership Chart
News and data on media ownership, plus related articles about media monopolies and concentration of power.
http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/
The Progress & Freedom Foundation
A think tank devoted to the study of the digital revolution. Generally supports deregulation and free market in telecommunications.
http://www.pff.org/
CJR - The Real Dangers of Conglomerate Control
Excerpts from a 1996 forum hosted by Columbia Journalism Review, with panelists expressing differing views on implications of media concentration of ownership.
http://archives.cjr.org/year/97/2/danger.a...
The Center for Public Integrity - Media Tracker
Offers a database to displays who controls the media in any area of the United States. Searchable by zip code, city, company, radio or TV station.
http://www.public-i.org/telecom/analysis/
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Public notices, news releases, orders, notices of proposed rulemaking, fact sheets, databases, audio recordings and additional official agency information. FCC is an independent agency, directly responsible to Congress, that regulates most U.S. mass communications - radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
http://www.fcc.gov/
A New FCC for the 21st Century
Section of official Federal Communications website outlining FCC's changing role and reduced regulation because of a belief that there will be more competition in communications media.
http://www.fcc.gov/21st_century/
New Democracy Forum -- The Future of Media?
Online debate about effects on democracy of corporate dominance and concentration of media ownership. Includes opinions from differing perspetives from Robert McChesney, Lawrence Grossman, Ralph Nader and other contributors. From Boston Review.
http://www.bostonreview.net/ndf.html#Media
Corporate Media Portal
Information on corporate media, from a critical perspective. Articles and links about LPFM radio service, anti-corporate sites and links to free radio resources.
http://www.partytown.com/cmp/
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