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It has been a humbling comedown for the networks and their owners, who are more accustomed to being mighty media monoliths than niche players scrounging for audiences.
Those fanatical devotees built a mighty media and merchandising empire from a novelty TV series that ran from 1966 to 1969 on NBC — decades before that network was owned by General Electric.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe film and its 2017 sequel have helped foster a newfound romanticism for the once mighty media, along with hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, which got its own cassette soundtrack release this summer.
And while we're at it, how about Cecil King, another mighty media mogul, then owner of the Daily Mirror, who in the 1960s became so convinced that the prime minister, Harold Wilson, was a danger to the country that he started discussing with MI5 and Lord Mountbatten, apparently in all seriousness, a plot to overthrow the Wilson government?
The program is a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy that takes aim at the "mega morons of the mighty media".
It was only once a threat was made that the mighty media conglomerate, Viacom, swung into action, not to safeguard the freedom of speech of its show's creators -- in both a moral sense, by airing the episode again in full, and in the physical sense of beefed up security -- but to self-censor their content.
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Mexico's faults – corrupt politicians, conniving with over-mighty media – have a very familiar ring.
One bill Falconer drew up with particular relish: over-mighty media ownership would be curtailed.
A once-mighty media empire would be reduced to holding four shrinking newspapers.A 17-page annex to the committee's report reveals how it arrived at this judgment.
Now we wait to see whether the current culture secretary, Karen Bradley, will refer the bid to Ofcom, the regulator with power to prevent over-mighty media conglomerations.
What is the Leveson inquiry and assorted related police investigations but a belated attempt to stand up to over-mighty media groups (Rupert, I'm talking about you) who thought they were above the law and acted accordingly.
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