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• - Article critical of media monopolies and lack of news coverage and public debate about them. (Sept.11,1999)
  
• - Articles and commentaries critical of corporate media dominance from FAIR.
  
• - Commentary in the February 2000 issue of The Progressive magazine contending that corporate cable and Internet providers may destroy freedom of access and expression on the Internet.
  
• - Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.
  
• - Critique of the shallowness of news coverage of media mergers and social implications of concentrated ownership. By Norman Solomon, Media Beat columnist.
  
• - Interview with former FCC Commissioner and author of "How to Talk Back to Your Television" about possible implications of media monopolies. (1995)
  
• - Article that criticizes the influence of industry money and lack of public interest considerations in the adoption of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (From In These Times.)
  
• - Article by conservative columnist Brent Bozell contending that liberal fears of corporate control of media is a myth.
  
• - A look back at the early days of corporate control and consolidation of media ownership. A compilation of three late 1960's articles warning about the trend. From Atlantic Monthly archives.
  
• - Excerpts from book critical of concentration of ownership of media.
  
• - Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pag