Sentence examples for gatekeeper power from inspiring English sources

Although vertical integration has worked in the pay-TV market for the likes of Rupert Murdoch, with BSkyB, and John Malone, when he was running TCI, an American cable system, the gatekeeper power that it relies on does not translate easily to the Internet.

Left unchecked, there are few limits to this gatekeeper power.

It said the merger would give Comcast "unprecedented gatekeeper power in several important markets".

But I put it to you that as gatekeepers' power has diminished, and the number of would-be directors, CEOs and pundits has skyrocketed, while the costs of trying have shrunk — randomness has become a more and more important factor.

Whether Project Spartan continues, or whether Facebook builds out all these native iOS apps, Facebook will increasingly become the mobile identity gatekeeper and power source behind some of the newer application layer services.

Even top administration officials believe these gatekeepers held power too closely.

The conveners framed the clash at hand rightly: the fight over the internet was "incumbents versus insurgents" – insurgents challenging existing gatekeepers and institutional power, incumbents defending.

To me, that is a remarkably rose-colored view of printing and publishing up until the internet age, when gatekeepers had the power (and the politics) to block public access to all kinds of information.

A narrow band of wealthy donors acted as gatekeepers to public power well before Citizens United and would continue to do so if just that decision is reversed.

She is also his gatekeeper, sometimes using that power to tip the balance in internal debates.

"What more abhorrent act is there, short of murder?" Newhan said he was otherwise comfortable with how the association wielded its power as gatekeeper of baseball history.