The only free press we have left is the Internet. We must protect it - and ourselves.
Phyllis Carter
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January 7, 2013
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Media Monopolies: According to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders – an independent from Vermont and a leading opponent of media consolidation – 50 companies owned 90 percent of the American media in 1983. Today, that same 90 percent is controlled by six companies: GE, News Corp., Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. "In short, it amounts to a monopoly on what we hear, and what we view, on TV and radio," Jim Martin wrote in a Denver Post column critical of a Federal Communications Commission proposal to relax rules on media ownership.
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