Do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute a threat to democracy?
Competing commercial interests in an already concentrated media market means that consensus between all parties is unlikely to occur.
Kann's friend Jim Ottaway frets about the impact of concentrated media ownership on Americans' ability to sample diverse opinions.
In 2004, a high-profile laboratory failure concentrated media and congressional attention on oversight of the laboratory industry.
The lobbyists wave ownership charts for the recording, film and cable businesses, showing that radio is the least concentrated media sector.
And she writes that in Australia's heavily concentrated media market, "bias matters more, simply because there is less capacity to contest arguments and less diversity of commentary".
With elections for the national parliament around the corner, the consequences of concentrated media�� ownership and corrupt journalism are already on full display.
This is what happens when you live in a state small enough population-wise, swingy enough and with a sufficiently concentrated media market that dumping dollars can have a lot of apparent leverage.
At the same time, highly concentrated media ownership is controversial too, with hundreds of Brazil's politicians being either directors or partners in roughly 300 media companies, according to an independent media-monitoring group, Donos da Mídia.
You don't need to be in parliament to secure your interests, you only need to buy or exert enough influence through cash or concentrated media ownership to make sure things don't change regardless of whether the LNP or Labor is in government.
The government agency that employs the counters, the Higher Council for the Audiovisual, or C.S.A., monitors television and the radio to ensure that all candidates, mainstream or marginal, receive their fair share of exposure in France's highly concentrated media galaxy, where 4 of 400 television channels command 60 percent of viewers.
