The Nation on Big Media - Whole Earth Recommends - Brief Article

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Want to know why mainstream news and entertainment feel so homogenized? Turn to the center of the January 7/14, 2002 issue of The Nation for a double gatefold chart detailing the tentacles of the "Big Ten" companies that increasingly dominate US media, music, publishing, sports, and entertainment, not to mention theme parks and live venues. A dozen and a half commentators (Ani DiFranco, Danny Schecter, Nicholas Johnson, Mark Dowie) weigh in with recommendations.

The Nation also invited readers to nominate favorite alternative media outlets, and printed about fifty of their responses. Most, though not all, swing from the left side of the plate; nominees range from the BBC and The Guardian (UK), to Designer/Builder, Free Radio Santa Cruz, TheSpleen.com, and The Other Side, a prochoice, progay, proconsumer evangelical Christian magazine from Philadelphia. --MKS

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