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Outline and Discuss the View that Increasing Concentration in Ownership of the Mass Media is bad for Audiences.  

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Lindsay Glover L63 Outline and Discuss the View that Increasing Concentration in Ownership of the Mass Media is bad for Audiences. To sociologists, the increasing concentration of the mass media is a very debatable topic. There are two different ways at looking at this situation. One way is that it is good to increase concentration because it will benefit the public. However many people look at concentration as a bad thing because only a small amount of people are able to control the media, increasing their own power. People, who have a radical view, would agree that media concentration is bad for the audience. One of their main concerns is that too few people are gaining too much power, through concentration. Especially from a manipulative point of view, this means that the top executives and company owners are having too much control over what we, the public, are subjected to. This suggests that...

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