{"id":381,"date":"2004-07-24T02:29:01","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T02:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2004-07-24T02:29:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T02:29:01","slug":"ted_turner_my_beef_with_big_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Ted Turner &#8211; My Beef with Big Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Courageous, or Outrageous, depending on your POV, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2004\/0407.turner.html\">Ted Turner takes some shots<\/a> at media consolidation in this Washington Monthly article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Today, media companies are more concentrated than at any time over the past 40 years, thanks to a continual loosening of ownership rules by Washington. The media giants now own not only broadcast networks and local stations; they also own the cable companies that pipe in the signals of their competitors and the studios that produce most of the programming. To get a flavor of how consolidated the industry has become, consider this: In 1990, the major broadcast networks&#8211;ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox&#8211;fully or partially owned just 12.5 percent of the new series they aired. By 2000, it was 56.3 percent. Just two years later, it had surged to 77.5 percent.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Ironically, on the day I read this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/bym\/news\/jul04\/246014.asp\">Gannett announced<\/a> that they purchased a rival Green Bay, WI newspaper, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaynewschron.com\/\">News-Chronicle<\/a> (along with a number of regional and weekly publications).  Frank Wood owned the News Chronicle, which in 1989 published a long series of articles critical of Gannett and its business practices.  Richard McCord, the writer of these articles went on to publish a book &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ye7mC2k9Qu&#038;isbn=0826213758&#038;itm=2\">the Chain Gang<\/a>.<br \/>\nJon Lauck references this book in his disection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/daschlevthune.typepad.com\/daschle_v_thune\/2004\/07\/gannetts_operat.html\">newspaper monopoly situation in South Dakota<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Courageous, or Outrageous, depending on your POV, Ted Turner takes some shots at media consolidation in this Washington Monthly article: Today, media companies are more concentrated than at any time over the past 40 years, thanks to a continual loosening of ownership rules by Washington. The media giants now own not only broadcast networks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}