On 1/17/08, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 21:17 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > There is a great resource put out by Columbia University called 'Who
> > Owns What' which is an index of all major media publications and what
> > corps own them:
> >
> >   http://www.cjr.org/resources/
> ----
> which of course is out of date - the first Corp I went looking for was
> Bain Capital now that they have purchased ClearChannel and absorbed them
> completely. This is Mitt Romney's company and he will control a large
> media chunk.
>
> The past few years of corporate acquisition gives the illusion of
> corporate growth and it's hard to keep up.

  Interesting... I guess I had no easy way of verifying the data.
They have since I last checked reformatted the page.  thanks!

  an interesting story:

  "Media ownership study ordered destroyed"
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/

  Martin@FCC is in the hot seat right now.  Although we may not agree
on everything, Craig, it's good to see that other people recognize
these problems.  Martin should be tried for treason.  Note the
language here:

  "The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy
all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of
media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at
the agency says."

  I didn't know the FCC was a person!  We should be asking 'WHO' here,
not 'WHAT'.  Its interesting that we no longer value reports on their
validity, instead we just burn them if they don't serve our lobbyists
interests.

  as for Theyrule.net , its a great site but not really for
professional analysis.  One of the maps there that show the relations
between M$, Dell, and Intel really tells an interesting story.  They
stay away from the typical lefty antics and just show the data, and I
really appreciate that.

 -jmz


> ----
> >
> >   in the same vien is one of my favorites: http://www.theyrule.net
> >
> >   unfortunately the site does not allow you to link into the maps.  Go
> > to 'Load Map', and click 'Popular' and pick any one with Microsoft in
> > the title.  I'm sure many here would find these diagrams interesting.
> ----
> It's interesting but not germane.
>
> Craig
>
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