Media Monopolies: Corporate Merger Mania - Cohen

Jeff Cohen New and ever-larger media mergers and takeovers are becoming almost routine. Each new deal seems to dwarf the previous one. Fewer and fewer corporations dominate more and more media. But does the public benefit from this situation? Growing corporate control of media poses serious questions about the information needs of a democratic society. (audio cassette - 60 minutes - 1995) Jeff Cohen is founder and Executive Director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - a New York-based media watch group - and a nationally syndicated columnist. He's author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error - Through the Media Looking Glass and Wizards of Media Oz.