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Old 06-09-2003, 02:31 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
While I may work for a media giant, I still don't think that its a great idea to have a majority of the media held by 2-3 companies. While it's "cost effective" IMHO it's not going to allow fair representation of viewpoints.
i think that no government intervention would let the companies sort this out.

here is a scenario:

companies start influencing news w/ their viewpoints. so, viewers would likely switch to a different station for the news = loss of ad revenues for the biased station.

i think the "invisible hand" can work here
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