Ben Bagdikian on media consolidation
He wrote the definitive book on media consolidation. Ben Bagdikian, former dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism says that if the FCC revokes ownership limits it will harm the public discourse. But look at the first sentence of his comment and think about what is happening with blogging:
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at January 29, 2003 11:14 PM | TrackBack
"When you get a new technology, you want new, young, smaller groups that are quicker on their feet and able to come up with new ideas. Whereas the few existing giant corporations want to control the change, limit it as much as possible so they minimize their costs of conversion. They control the way it's going to their advantage and not the public's advantage."