Media Ownership: Past, Present, & Future

• In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S.
• In 2005 that number is believed to be down to six. (Corporations.Org)
  

According to Ben Bagdikian, author The Media Monopoly, U.S. Media is controlled by:

• Time Warner
• Disney
• News Corporation
• Bertelsmann of Germany
• Viacom (CBS)
• General Electric (NBC)

"When the central interests of the controlling corporations are at stake,
mainstream American news becomes heavily weighted by whatever serves the
economic and political interests of the corporations that own the media"

-Ben Bagdikian