The Media Monopoly
Teen Ink, January 3, 2006
By Evan O.
"The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really only five companies that control 90% of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy." And that is according to Ted Turner, former Vice Chairman of AOL Time Warner, one of the largest media corporations in America. Is the way our media runs really falling into a corrupt, biased monopoly?
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