Here is a great three-segment discussion from Up with Chris Hayes about newspapers monopolies and the often powerful corporate interests behind them. Hayes' guest is Harper’s Magazine's David Sirota who recently published two articles on the topic -- “The Citizen Kane era returns” & “The only game in town.”
For media studies instructors, the video could pair well with news media concentration readings, such as Bagdikian’s The New Media Monopoly, Jhally’s The Political Economy of Culture (p. 45 here), Chapter 1 in McChesney’s Political Economy of Media, or C. Edwin Baker’s Media Concentration and Democracy. Could be an especially nice jumping-off point for discussing the relationships between structural trends (e.g., concentration) and instrumental control (e.g., “consciousness industry”).
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