Part 1 of Essay
In North America there are 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,500 book publishers, 2,000 television stations, 1,700 daily newspapers, and seven major movie studios . Such a large number of media outlets should foster free expression without the influence from outsiders. However, 23 corporations control over 50 p ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... expectation for the media -- diversity of ownership and ideas -- has disappeared as the goal of official policy and, worse, as a daily experience of a generation of American readers and viewers. Narrowing the diversity of news coverage even further is the ever-looming presence of the advertiser or corporate supporter. Advertisers have pressured more than 90 percent of U.S. newspapers to change or kill stories, reported a recent study by Marquette University's Department of Journalism . The same number of ....