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Nicholas Johnson on Media Monopoly - Interview with former FCC Commissioner and author of "How to Talk Back to Your Television" about possible implications of media monopolies. (1995)
How the News Media Covered a Media Merger - Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pages.)
World Socialist Website -- Monopolies Tighten Grip on the Media - Article critical of media monopolies and lack of news coverage and public debate about them. (Sept.11,1999)
Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian - Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.
Media Mergers -- Atlantic Monthly Flashback - A look back at the early days of corporate control and consolidation of media ownership. A compilation of three late 1960's articles warning about the trend. From Atlantic Monthly archives.
Global Concentration: The Media Ownership Chart - News and data on media ownership, plus related articles about media monopolies and concentration of power.
Mergers and Corporate Consolidation in the New Economy - Report by Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission to the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, in 1998.
Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again - Article by conservative columnist Brent Bozell contending that liberal fears of corporate control of media is a myth.
Internet Part Of The Media Continuum - Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.
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.

Wikipedia Articles

Derek Morris - Sir Derek Morris is former Chairman of the Competition Commission (formerly the Monopolies and Mergers Commission) and as of October 1 2003 is the Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.
Department of Trade and Industry - ... 28 June 2007department was first formed in 1970] with the merger of the [[Board of Trade and the Ministry of Technology, creating a new cabinet post of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The new department also took over the Department of Employment's former responsibilities for monopolies and mergers.