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'Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one' 1 Over the past century, the world has witnessed a media which has grown in size and influence. The small newspapers owned by one person or a family, and financed through sales is a thing of the past, and has given way to gigantic conglomerates with interests in almost every conceivable form of money-making business. This has led to a far greater diversity than people could have dreamt of a century ago, but it has also led to a mainstreaming of the news-industry, where the small independent papers, sometimes holding a view not generally accepted as the 'right' view, have had no chance of survival. In this essay I will try to give an account of why the media came to be so completely dominated by the industry, and also present a few questions which I feel are...

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