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This has been the age-old question in American politics. With every election, the question is revisited. At times, the American people make a surprising choice, disregarding character issues and instead questioning policies. In a recent ABC News poll, 73 percent of American thought that a president who was empathetic and listened to the public was more important that a president with the "highest personal character...
...school of critics claims that growing media concentration has caused journalism to lose much of its aggressiveness and credibility. The Nation magazine last June devoted a special issue to media conglomerates, including a chart detailing the tentacles of four dominant companies: General Electric (owner of NBC), Walt Disney Co. (ABC), Time Warner (CNN) and Westinghouse (CBS). Americans may be tuning out the news, the magazine speculated, "because they don't trust its homogenized premise of objectivity, especially when Disneyized, Murdochized, Oprahized and Hard Copyized." Though these corporate ownerships are becoming more apparent (Good Morning America travels to Disney World more...
Disney and ABC. General Electric and NBC. Westinghouse and CBS. Microsoft and MSNBC. Time Warner and Turner. Among the trends in the media world is consolidation, with sprawling corporations' owning news organizations and raising the specter of conflicting interests and a less diverse babble of journalistic voices. The Nation magazine this summer published an octopus-like chart of media conglomerates, noting that the companies themselves would be unlikely to do so. Herewith, we do so, detailing that of our parent company...
...against bruising competition. Even after the network moved it to a safer slot on Monday night, the series never fully recovered from its disastrous initial face-off against the popular medics of ER. Now it has been scheduled against NBC's stratospherically rated Seinfeld and Suddenly Susan. Still, that ABC had enough faith in Murder One to renew it is one of the happier notes in this very dismal TV season...
Disney and ABC. General Electric and NBC. Westinghouse and CBS. Microsoft and MSNBC. Time Warner and Turner. Among the trends in the media world is consolidation, with sprawling corporations' owning news organizations and raising the specter of conflicting interests and a less diverse babble of journalistic voices. The Nation magazine this summer published an octopus-like chart of media conglomerates, noting that the companies themselves would be unlikely to do so. Herewith, we do so, detailing that of our parent company...