[9938] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill text draft 2: Telecommunications Competition Act (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Costlow)
Fri Jan 28 07:28:30 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 23:35:03 MST
From: bbx!kitsune!cheeks@cs.unm.edu (Mark Costlow)
To: com-priv@cs.unm.edu
In-Reply-To: <CK7E4K.2DJ@kitsune.uucp>
Barry Shein asks:
>As to newspapers today, roughly how many different, independent
>newspapers are you referring to (is it fair to say "in round
>thousands")? And what stops you or anyone else from launching a
>newspaper tomorrow?
You might be surprised. The number of independent newspapers in the country
has drastically declined since the 1960s. In "The Media Monopoly" Ben
Bagdikian claims that there are now only 14 companies which hold over 1/2
of the daily newspapers in the US (page 18 of 4th edition). 7 years ago
there were 20. Most people don't realize that their paper is part of a
chain because, unlike McDonald's, there is typically only one
representative of the chain in each town.
The top 3 of the 14 are:
Gannet Company: USA Today and 87 other dailies
Knight-Ridder, Inc.: Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, 27 others
Newhouse Newspapers: Staten Island Advance, Portland Oregonian, 24
others.
It's a very interesting book.
Mark
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Mark Costlow
Southwest Cyberport
cheeks@kitsune.abq.nm.us or ...mimbres.cs.unm.edu!bbx!kitsune!cheeks
