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Published on Monday, June 17, 2006 by The Nation
Fight for a Free Press
by Robert W. McChesney
The National Entertainment Chart demonstrates, again, how enormous the
media conglomerates are and how much of our core media are under their
control. Although concentration has not increased especially over the past few
years, the damage has been done. Democracy is premised on a free press, and
freedom of the press is premised on the absence of public or private
gatekeepers with monopolistic power. It is why the Supreme Court ruled in 1945
that antitrust was probably more appropriate in the realm of media than in any
other area. Looking at this chart, we can see that A.J. Liebling's adage that
"freedom of the press is limited to those who own one" is frightfully accurate,
with all that it says about the state of our core freedoms and our democracy. The
Supreme Court was sixty-one years ahead of its time.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0619-21.htm
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