The “Big Ten” media conglomerates

“The media cartel that keeps us fully entertained and permanently half-informed is always growing here and shriveling there”

A lot and not much at all has changed since 2002 when this was written. If you don’t have time to read it - catch the last paragraph at least:

“In short, the news divisions of the media cartel appear to work against the public interest–and for their parent companies, their advertisers and the Bush Administration. The situation is completely un-American. It is the purpose of the press to help us run the state, and not the other way around. As citizens of a democracy, we have the right and obligation to be well aware of what is happening, both in “the homeland” and the wider world. Without such knowledge we cannot be both secure and free. We therefore must take steps to liberate the media from oligopoly, so as to make the government our own.”

Read article “What’s wrong with this picture” By Mark Crispin Miller Here