Corporate Media & Consolidation

2009

Les Payne's Too-Quiet Departure

Peter Eisner : Journalists & Journalism

A legendary African-American journalist is cast off by Newsday, and the profession is poorer for it.

Who'll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned

Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols

The media reform movement has made a few inroads, but there's still a long way to go.
Not Your Father's FCC

Michael J. Copps : Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

As we struggle for media democracy, let's take encouragement from the early actions of the FCC.
The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal

Jerold M. Starr : John McCain

A Pittsburgh public television activist explains how McCain broke the rules while doing the bidding of a media mogul.
McCain and the Media

Robert Scheer : Journalists & Journalism

It's absurd for the New York Times to cast him as a tool of corporate media, when he's been in the forefront of trying to rein it in.

Stop the Media Grab

: Journalists & Journalism

If FCC chairman Kevin Martin prevails, Americans will be stuck with one-size-fits-all media and a downsized democracy.
Google: Search and Data Seizure

Jeffrey Chester : Internet & New Media

Google's bid to acquire DoubleClick will make it the most powerful player in interactive marketing on the planet. But it poses threats to our privacy, politics and democratic aspirations for the Internet.
All Rupert, All the Time

Eric Alterman : Wall Street Journal

Will Rupert Murdoch's play to own and operate the Wall Street Journal have a silver lining for liberals?
This Space for Sale

Barbara Ehrenreich : Media Analysis

The Philadelphia Inquirer is planning to run an editorial column sponsored by Citizens Bank. What's next--the Phillip Morris column on health issues?
Class War in Conrad's Court

Naomi Klein : Canada

The jury selection for the trial of a Canadian press baron accused of looting shareholder earnings reveals popular discontent with the corporate elite.
TNR's New Owners

Clint Hendler : Publishing Industry

No matter what you think of The New Republic's politics, the public sphere will suffer if the magazine becomes homogenized by its new corporate owner.
Media Reform's Moment

: Internet & New Media

The time is right to upend big media's agenda.

Crisis at Libération

K.A. Dilday : Journalists & Journalism

Beset with financial woes, a labor-management power struggle and an aging leftist readership, the legendary French newspaper is on the brink of extinction.
The Death of News

Nicholas von Hoffman : Journalists & Journalism

In cities across America, reporters are being laid off, TV stations are cutting back coverage and the newspaper industry is crumbling to dust. When it all shakes out, will Wikipedia be as good as it gets?
The End of Times?

Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism

Journalism's in crisis, crushed by Wall Street and tarnished by a failure of nerve. As newspapers die and fake news proliferates, who will provide reliable information vital to a functioning democracy?
What's Wrong With this Picture?

Kristal Brent Zook : Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

FCC commissioners heard testimony in New York this week about how media consolidation stifles diversity, grassroots community and the creativity of independent musicians and artists.
The FCC Scandal

John Nichols : Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

It's official: Revelations that the FCC suppressed reports on the danger of media consolidation prove the agency is overwhelmingly biased in favor of big media.