Consolidation doesn't seem any less entertaining, it's just not as newsworthy

September 28, 2009 I've been thinking about that conundrum called media consolidation, and it's not as easy to take a single view of it as I once thought. Granted, it's an inevitable fact of life that small fries look to grow larger and big fish swallow up others so as to have more wiggle room -- and more money for the folks who put the deal together. Six companies control the bulk of what gets on the air in terms of entertainment, and just four -- NBC Universal, CBS, Disney-ABC and News Corp. -- control most of the country's TV news outlets.

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