Quote:
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