[9.2i.1] The largest newspaper owner, The Gannett Company owns 110 daily newspapers and 21 television stations.

[9.2i.2] The McClatchy Company is the second largest newspaper owner of 32 daily papers based on a purchase of Knight-Ridder newspaper chain

[9.2i.2a]  Poynter Online: resources on issues of media convergence

[9.2i.2b] Poynter Online: Journalism & Business Values articles

[9.2i.2c] Free the Media: ownership issues

[9.2i.2d] Take Back the Media: ownership issues

[9.2i.2e] Center for Public Integrity: Investigatory Journalism in the Public Interest

[9.2i.2f] Federal Communications Commissions: regulates media ownership

[9.2i.2g] Media Education Foundation: Media Ownership & Consolidation Series

[9.2i.3] For more information on newspaper ownership, the PBS program, NOW with Bill Moyers, has been covering this issue in many of its programs.

[9.2i.4] Click here for a list of which owners own what media.

[9.2i.5] In the Education Media Foundation video, Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney examines the ways in which journalism has been compromised by a focus on sensationalism and lack of investigative reporting by the conglomerates such as Disney, Sony, Viacom, News Corp, and Time Warner.

[9.2i.6] In an Education Media Foundation video, The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman present their “propoganda model” of the news related to attempts by corporate and conservative interests to propogate their own ideological perspectives in news content and coverage.

[9.2i.7] In their book Manufacturing Consent, they define this model as functioning to filter the news in certain ways.

[9.2i.8] Noam Chomsky essay: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
[9.2i.9] The Noam Chomsky Archive

As documented by Trudy Lieberman, in Slanting the Story: The Forces That Shape the News (New Press, 2000), conservative think tanks and organizations exist, such as the:

[9.2i.10] The Heritage Foundation
[9.2i.11] The American Enterprise Institute
[9.2i.12] The Manhattan Institute
[9.2i.13] The Hoover Institution
[9.2i.14] The Fordham Foundation
[9.2i.15] The Cato Institute
[9.2i.16] The National Taxpayers Institute
[9.2i.17] The Center for Education Reform
[9.2i.18] Center of the American Experiment (Minnesota)
[9.2i.19] Minnesota Taxpayers League
[9.2i.20] Minnesota Education League

There are also “liberal” think tanks, although, as Lieberman documents, they have lost the clout and influence they enjoyed in the 1970s:

[9.2i.21]The Brookings Institute
[9.2i.22] Center for National Policy
[9.2i.23] National Democratic Institute

[9.2i.24] During the debate over the Profile curriculum in Minnesota, Katherine Kersten consistently critiqued the limitations of the Profile in a column sponsored by the Center of the American Experiment in The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

[9.2i.25] For a critique of the idea that the media are “too liberal,” see Eric Altermann, What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News, Basic Books.