Part one of term paper
In North America there are 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,500 book publishers, 2,000 television stations, 1,700 daily newspapers, and seven major movie studios . Such a large number of media outlets should foster free expression without the influence from outsiders. However, 23 corporations control over 50 percent of the busine ...

Part two of term paper
... revenues . The three networks, Capital Cities/ABC, CBS and GE/NBC, still have majority access to the television audience, and most of the book business is controlled by fewer than a dozen companies, with major categories like paperback and trade books dominated by still fewer firms . In this environment the usual democratic expectation for the media -- diversity of ownership and ideas -- has disappeared as the goal of official policy and, worse, as a daily experience of a generation of Americ ...