Media Control
Powerful corporations want to decide what you’re able to watch, listen to, read and share. And runaway media consolidation among news organizations has squashed diverse, local and independent voices, leaving us in the dark about important developments in our communities.
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A small cartel of billionaires and conglomerates dominates the U.S. media landscape. Free Press rates the independence of each of these giants and analyzes their ability to defend democracy at a time of domestic and international authoritarianism.
Media mergers and monopolies silence our voices, raise prices and limit our choices.
Thanks to decades of runaway media consolidation and the FCC’s failure to boost diverse ownership opportunities, women and people of color own only a fraction of our news outlets.
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