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MediaCon: in a thing worth a 1,000 words

May 31, 2003 4:08 PM - comments (5)

From Sarah Lai Stirland's post: A picture of the current concentration.

Posted on May 31, 2003 4:08 PM | | technorati

Comments (5)

June 2, 2003 7:25 AM Mike:

Professor, that picture HAS a thousand words.

June 2, 2003 9:25 AM boris:

Truly frightening. Concentration is already far too high and they want more. And these people want us to believe they don't tamper with information/truth/reality?

Sigh.

June 3, 2003 10:21 AM Kevin Webb:

This is fascinating and spawns the thought: can we map media concentration/penetration spatially?

I ask partly because I’m a geographer and cartographer and think of everything in spatial terms (I look at this picture and wonder where the names are located that it lists) and partly because I feel that creating a tool for visualizing this process of transformation, a process that is about to take on a whole new form, would be incredibly useful in understanding the effects of this regulatory shift.

I can see the visualization of this information, but I simply don’t know anything about the availability of data on the geography or spatial extent of print and broadcast media.

If anyone has any thoughts on this I’d love to discuss it further. email me at info@*NOSPAM*jump9.com.

Kevin

June 3, 2003 10:42 AM Buddha Buck:

What the picture lacks

What's lacking is media sources independent of those five. Where does NPR/PRI/PBS fit into the scheme of things? Locally owned radio stations? Religious broadcasters? Do these non-ViaClearNewsDisneyAOL sources account for 5% or 50% of available media sources?

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