Monday, June 21, 2010

FCC asks: Do media ownership limits make sense?

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"Even the news industry's free fall probably will not be enough to wipe out complicated federal rules designed to restrain the powe...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Google Trends suggests that interest in media ownership on decline, especially compared to the economy

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How important is the subject of media ownership? As with so many questions, the answer is, relative to what? And to whom? Google not only an...
Friday, August 08, 2008

Matt Welch takes media reformistas to task for hypocrisy

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Matt Welch, in a post at Reason , pinpoints the hypocrisy of the media reformistas movement. Given what Welch documents they are on the rec...
Friday, March 28, 2008

It took too long, but Justice understood Sirius-XM market perfectly

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A few months back I was visiting with my sister-in-law in Western Missouri. I offered to tag along as she drove for a few errands. I also w...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Why Cable Prices Seem To have Increased So Rapidly

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When a candy bar manufacturer has higher costs it can raise prices by giving less. The 3 ounce bar becomes the 2.75 ounce bar. This in effec...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Is it a "Confidential" or "Free and Open" Society?

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Though a bit off-topic from the usual subject matter of this Blog, I couldn’t resist highlighting the following statement from Martha K. Lev...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Retiring WSJ Managing Editor Says High Profits Created Newspaper Industry’s “Golden Age”

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Today is the last day on the job for Paul Steiger, who has been the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, for the past 16 years. That’...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Senate's Media Ownership Crusade: Ignores Research, Will Have Unintended Consequences

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Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the Senate’s latest misguided efforts to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from doing ...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Slate's Shafer "Defends" Murdoch. But it's Really About Encouraging Choice and Diversity

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Jack Shafer, who authors the Pressbox column for Slate, wrote “ In Defense of Rupert Murdoch ” last Friday that Murdoch is “not as bad as ...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

WOTM FAQ #4: Is the debate about media concentration you are having with other scholars fun and stimulating?

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A FAQ series featuring some real questions I have answered from time to time. It’s been awhile since I last added to my FAQ. The above is b...
Friday, July 13, 2007

News Corp. as an acquirer is limited by family ownership

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While the outcome of News Corporation’s audacious bid to acquire Dows Jones continues to percolate, it might also be timely to look at New...
Friday, April 06, 2007

Flow chart and new ad data reinforces competition and fragmentation in the media industry

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I posted an entry today at the Rebuilding Media site which was primarily focused on media strategy. Figure 1 Howeve...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Media “Monopoly” as seen from the real world

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You don't have to be an economist to intuitively know that close substitutes can act as very effective competition. Remember pop in glas...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Sirius/XM Merger Proposal: The two sides of the pancake.

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The two satellite radio providers, XM and Sirius, announced a proposed merger yesterday. The FCC, which must approve such a combination, ...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Columbia Forum Yields No Answers But Highlights Ambiguities on Media Ownership Issue

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The mini-symposium at Columbia Journalism School yesterday on Media Reform: Is it Good for Journalism? was barely a toe-in-the-water ev...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

What Media Consolidation? Whose Quality Journalism? Response Below

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I was asked by a documentary film maker if I would agree to be interviewed for a film on the media ownership issue, specifically the FCC hea...
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Friday, February 02, 2007

“Media Reform: Is It Good for Journalism?” at Columbia J-School Feb 8

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I will be a participant at Columbia University’s School of Journalism mini-conference next Thursday, Feb 8 it’s labeling “Media Reform: Is...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Slate Further Questions the Minot-Clear Channel Urban Legend

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Back in June 2005 I wrote about the Urban Legend that was growing up about the events surrounding a toxic gas spill in the area of Minot , ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

"Media Tracker" a useful tool for identifying media competitors by locality

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A useful research tool has been relaunched by the Center for Public Integrity as part of its Telecom and Media Ownership Project. Dubbed M...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

NSF-Funded Study Finds Newspaper “Slant” Comes from Readers, Not from Owner

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Once again, does ownership matter? A new, comprehensive, methodically unbiased study from two academic economists asks the question: “What D...