"In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S.

Only 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth."

This was a good 3-4 years ago. Things haven't gotten better since then.

http://www.freepress.net/content/ownership

http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html

http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

http://www.openairwaves.org/telecom/

I FREE SPEECH.