Chapter 32

1983
Ben Bagdikian

• new media often over takes old, but sometimes they begin to integrate themselves
• 6 companies now dominate all of US mass media
  
• will all media become integrated into these companies, or will the expansion of the Internet overcome this
• more and more internet companies are preventing users from transmitting too much data, and often prohibiting public servers

This is my biggest fear! This is what my entire concentration boils down to, media is converging, we are losing the freedom and wonderful anarchistic democracy of the internet, what is going to happen to culture!? If I have to, I will work the rest of my life to overcome this ungodly monopoly of power over the media, this is not the way it works in every other country, it does not have to be this way in the US.