Break up the big 6! At least 50% of all radio. and Telivision stations should be owened by small indipendent companies

I agree! What MoreAboutThat wrote sums it up for me. At this point, I'm simply happy that there are still people who are willing to look at, talk about, and admit they see what is happening. It's not conspiracy theory it is conspiracy fact. The internet is / has been the last place for free speech and now that is being threatened too.

It's called an oligopoly. It's the same thing as a monopoly, but since that's illegal, they've decided to share a little with each other for their common good.

I stopped watching all network type broadcast s back in the late 90s. It simply doesn't give me any valid information, at all. It's like gorging yourself on junk food. You get sick and throw up.

What ever happened to the anti-monopoly laws? Oh, yeah, right!

The point is important to make and not discussed enough, that being an understatement. There are many conclusions that can be drawn with this as a basic premise....how does this mediated control of information affect our awareness of the world we inhabit? Are we free of it on-line? Who is being served by the carnival atmosphere surrounding this primary campaign season? One extrapolated example might be; we hear everyday about how much money is being spent on the presidential campaign this year. This money is not being burned, it is going to, well, you could say 'jobs', but its going to pay for goods and services. There was a brief spot on NPR the other day where they cut up blueberry pies to the breakdown in outlay by the various candidates. Based on reporting, they came up with 12% going to airtime for ad's. That seems a low estimate to me and they suggest that it will go up when it comes to the general. so lets guesstimate 20%. "They" are saying that Pres. Obama may raise and spend up to a billion dollars, I think that's crazy, but lets assume that the GOP'ers will blow at least that much by Nov.'s election day. And that's just what they are reporting, that doesn't include Super-PAC's that will spend even more. Frightening numbers, but that 20% is going right into the coffers of these 6 media giants of which this article refers... and that's just for TV air time, that doesn't include newspapers and radio ad's that are owned by the same 'people' i.e. corporations. (the CEO's of which are on the Forbes list as the highest paid in the world...) So who stands to benefit from this media circus that is our political environment in this country? One thing is for sure, it does very little to improve our, our country's, general welfare.

This is really what "big brother" looks like. Back in the day, a broadcaster was allowed a maximum of five radio stations and no ties to newspapers. The airwaves were "owned" by the public, not the corporations. Ad agencies generally had a conscience (except when it came to tobacco advertising). And worst of all, even the most introspective of us, we are being brainwashed beyond what the Nazi's or the communists could ever imagine. By the time the majority of U.S. citizens wake up to this fact—if they ever do—at best we will be automatons...slaves to our jobs. At worst, we'll be in privately owned prisons for voicing our protests. Sorry for the doom and gloom.