BPR Quote of the Day
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Thomas Jefferson
This enlightened Founding Father understood that without an informed citizenry a democratic government would not function in the best interests of the people. Here is everything you wanted to know about Media Consolidation and wish weren’t so:
All of them are pretty much alike as it is. I don’t know that if they merged into one it would make a whole lot of difference.
I wonder if Jefferson would rethink his position if he were alive. With 6 media companies controlling 90% of all media, we are only 5 mergers away from having a Soviet-style media monopoly.