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Welcome. Sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority of media in america. What do we call it when a few firms dominate the market . Oligopoly. Doesnt quit...

Net worth for a member of the house, is that number plus 1 million. Almost exactly. Those are the numbers if you round to the nearest thousand, these are the act numbers. And the bottom number there, thats from the center for responsive politics, thats the median net worth for this freshman slash of members of congress. Its weird, right . Its almost uncanny, theres almost exactly a 1 million increment in net worth between the wealth of americans and the wealth of american representatives in congress. Congress is really rich compared to the rest of the country. It has been that way for a long t...

Welcome. Sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority of media in america. What do we call it when a few firms dominate the market . Oligopoly. Doesnt quit...

Welcome. Sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority of media in america. What do we call it when a few firms dominate the market . Oligopoly. Doesnt quit...